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[Matt]

Bingley Road, Menston development - planning application

[weirdmusic]

 

Matt, on 21 September 2010 - 12:52 PM, said:

Bingley Road, Menston development - planning application

I'm unable to access this link - keep getting an error message.  But I've found the planning application that was submitted on September 10th - I presume this is the one that's now been verified.
http://www.planning4...l=L8JE3SDH0DX00

[Matt]

weirdmusic, on 21 September 2010 - 03:52 PM, said:

 I'm unable to access this link - keep getting an error message.  But I've found the planning application that was submitted on September 10th - I presume this is the one that's now been verified.
http://www.planning4...l=L8JE3SDH0DX00

That's the one. Will update the link.

[weirdmusic]

 Are the local Conservatives in favour of these developments?

 Found this on Property Week .com - "Everything you need to know about localism" http://www.propertyw...5003633.article

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weirdmusic, on 28 September 2010 - 03:42 PM, said:

 Are the local Conservatives in favour of these developments?
 Found this on Property Week .com - "Everything you need to know about localism" http://www.propertyw...5003633.article

Consent for 299 homes in a green belt location in East Tilbury was approved by Eric Pickles (Communities Secretary) on 21 June 2010.

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weirdmusic, on 28 September 2010 - 03:42 PM, said:

Are the local Conservatives in favour of these developments?........................

Its gone very quiet in the blue corner!

[Matt]

weirdmusic, on 28 September 2010 - 03:42 PM, said:

 Are the local Conservatives in favour of these developments?

No. We've been working very hard to stop them for five years.

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Matt, on 24 October 2010 - 12:27 PM, said:

No. We've been working very hard to stop them for five years.

You don't have a hope in hell of stopping it, you never did.

There is clearly demand for the type of housing the developers want to put there.   You only have to look at my neck of the woods in Burley.

In the last few years we've had the infill development at Long Meadows, Scalebor Park, the Sun Lane estate, the town houses on Station Road, the 4-5 bedroom properties built on ex-Health Authority land off Moor Lane.  

I don't see any of them standing empty.

If you ask any of the people who live in these properties where they've come from, the vast majority are local to the area.

In terms of land use:

Are there any brownfield sites round here that could be built on as an alternative?  I can't think of any, can you?

The land around here is only suitable for livestock farming.  Unfortunately there's not much profit in livestock.  So if farmers/ landowners can't make any money from the land they own, they will be very tempted to sell it to developers.

The developers can see that there's money to be made in them there hills (seeing as they'd be foolish to build on the flood plain of the Wharfe Valley - though I wouldn't put it pass them to try).

All of which means there will be continuing pressure to build houses in places like Menston, Burley, Ilkley, Addingham etc.  

There are only 3 possible solutions - make livestock farming more profitable OR reduce demand from local people for family houses in this area OR the local community buys the land & puts it in a trust so that it can never be built on.

[weirdmusic]

"Taylor Wimpey submitted the outline plans for around 125 new properties on Bingley Road last Tuesday. An application by Barratt Homes for 174 properties on Derry Hill has led to more than 1,000 letters of objection by villagers after a campaign by Menston Action Group (MAG)".
In today's Ilkley Gusset: http://www.ilkleygaz...lanning_battle/

[weirdmusic]

Planners recommend approval for Menston development
http://www.wharfedal...on_development/

"The report to the (Shipley Area Planning) panel, by Barra Mac Ruairi, the council’s strategic director, regeneration and culture, says the plans for the homes should be accepted, subject to a raft of conditions in each case.

Agreements with the developer at Bingley Road would see contributions of £205,000 to secondary school provision, £125,000 to recreation open space and £331,000 towards transport.

The full application for the 173 homes on Derry Hill should also be acceptable, according to the report, and agreements with the developer would see £146,000 for recreation open space improvements, £236,377 towards school provision and more than £470,000 for transport."

£5000 per house for Bingley Road & about the same for Derry Hill as contributions to infrastructure, doesn't seem much, bearing in mind how much profit the developer's will make on each of them.
For the developers its a one-off hit, to be included in the purchase price. For the people of Menston ...............

[Matt]

The meeting is on Tuesday.

Matt

[Matt]

I am very sorry to say that the applications were passed yesterday. I do not beleive this was the right decision and in my view there was plenty of evidence to justify a refusal.

Two members of the planning panel did see the light and voted against the applications and in support of ther community view.

Now we must work out how to best deal with the consequences.

I'd just like to formally pay tribute to the pard work of Menston Action Group, parish and community councillors, and others who have worked very hard on this. Overturning a planning decision is difficult in the extreme (it's easy for a developer to appeal, almost impossible for objectors - the set up is horribly biased in favour of development), but I hope we will at least investigate this as a possibility.

Matt

[weirdmusic]

'Menston planning decision means Guiseley will suffer'
http://www.ilkleygaz...ays_councillor/

Seems Guiseley councillors not too pleased with Bradford Council's decision.

I wonder did Bradford Council take into account the impact the development would have on Guiseley (Leeds Council) when they OK'd the plans?

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weirdmusic, on 01 March 2012 - 07:03 PM, said:

I wonder did Bradford Council take into account the impact the development would have on Guiseley (Leeds Council) when they OK'd the plans?

Is this payback time for Leeds Council's approval of the Highroyds development?