8th November 2011
Public Exhibition
Proposed development of up to 50 homes on land off Bramcote Road, Loughborough
Charles Church invites you to attend a public exhibition on the
above proposals for development at Bramcote Road, Loughborough on Wednesday 16th November 2011 3.30pm - 7.30pm at Woodbrook Vale High School, Grasmere Road, Loughborough.
The public exhibition is open to all members of the local
community and will provide an opportunity to view the proposals and speak with members of the Charles Church development team. There will be the opportunity to express your views and the opportunity to submit your comments.
Sunday 20th February 2011
Loughborough South West Action Group has been campaigning for two years to save the land across the South West of Loughborough leading up to the Outwoods from a proposal to build 3000 houses with schools, shops and other facilities, together with a bypass between the A6 and MI at Junction 23.
The next Loughborough South West Community Forum meeting will take place at 6.30pm on Monday 7th March 2011 at Holywell Free Church, Berkeley Road, Loughborough LE11 3SJ. It is vitally important to attend if you want to save this Green Space –from the bulldozers.
Although it is designated as an Area of Particularly Attractive Countryside, this is not a protective designation and therefore permission for development might be granted. We believe that this may be our best chance to stop the destruction!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD PLANNING BACKGROUND INFO
The meeting will be attended by local Councillors and Planning Officers who need to hear your views on the Green Spaces that you value.
Leicestershire County Council launched a Green Space consultation exercise, which ends on 15th April 2011 and this is what they say:
“Why are we asking?”
Answer:
The Council launched the idea because the Government’s Localism Policy aims to give local communities a greater say on planning decisions affecting their areas. Ministers are also proposing to create a new “Valued Green Spaces” designation. Understanding which green spaces local people particularly value will help local communities and councils decide where new homes and other developments needed by local communities are best located. At the moment, Leicestershire has green wedges around Leicester, Loughborough, Hinckley and Coalville. Residents have been campaigning for further green wedges to be designated and other areas of countryside to be protected.
You can also have your say by going to www.leicestershire.gov.uk . Scroll down to “Do it online”, click on “Have your say” go to the left hand panel and click on “Current/future consultations” and follow the links or write to Andrew Simmonds, Chief Executive’s Office, Leicestershire County Council, County Hall, Leicester LE3 8RA.
We hope to see you at the meeting and many thanks for your support.
Please help NOW - we need your help to prevent our wonderful countryside from destruction!
Saturday 15th January 2011
Loughborough South-West Action Group (LSWAG) has been maintaining an active, though low profile, stance since the Spring of 2010, but has had little to announce until now.
We have kept in regular contact with Councillors and Planners at County and Borough level. No policy decisions have been taken by them since the run-up to the General Election, when the Conservatives said they would scrap the Regional Housing Targets which led to the proposal to build on our local area. The Coalition Government took power and duly invalidated the targets.
In recent weeks, the courts have overturned the Government’s scrapping of housing targets, but this is likely to be remedied fairly quickly, but some developers may rush applications forward. In the meantime, planning has been hampered by the absence of any guidance as to the methodology to be applied to determine the number of houses needed. The Localism Bill is now going through Parliament and will enable planners to function from a position of certainty. See http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/localism.html for details.
In the meantime, Leicestershire County Council and Charnwood Borough Council have been working on a Charnwood Forest Regional Park proposal, which takes in a wide area around the west and south of Loughborough. LSWAG has seen this as an opportunity to make the area around The Outwoods less attractive to developers. We have had difficulty in gleaning any information about what is proposed, but after several approaches, Charnwood Borough Council has published a report compiled by consultants. We are assured that its recommendations will go forward to form part of the Charnwood Core Plan for future development of Charnwood. Details of the report may be found at http://www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/ppg17_open_spaces_sport_and_recreation_study. Our enquiries have reinforced to the planners the value placed on The Outwoods landscape by the public in general.
Leicestershire County Council recently wrote to all County Councillors and Town and Parish Councils asking them to comment on what additional Green Spaces were desirable to protect particularly precious open space from development. Your committee has asked the County Councillors for our area to demand that an area adjacent to The Outwoods be designated Green Space, again to prevent development. The matter will come up for public consultation in the New Year, primarily through the Area Forums. We will advise you of time and venue. It is vital that you participate.
Planning officers have continued to do groundwork and have recently published the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA). This sets out guidelines which must be met before sizeable areas of land can be considered for building more than ten houses. It then lists, with plans, areas of land throughout Charnwood, which have been put forward by interested parties, and comments on conformation to the guidelines. Details can be found at http://www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/shlaa. Readers should note that this document is guidance which will help in formulating the Core Plan and is not, in itself, policy.
Loughborough South-West Action Group will be keeping an ear to the ground and will keep you abreast of events. Charnwood Borough’s Lead Councillor for Planning has recently said that Charnwood Borough Council will go out to public consultation on the revised Core Strategy, which will inform the Local Development Framework, sometime later in the year. Individuals and organisations should be aware that previous submissions relating to existing proposals will not be carried forward. Therefore we must all be aware of what is in the new plans and act as soon as they are published. The consultation will last only six weeks. Please make your friends and neighbours aware of our website and ask them to submit their email addresses through this website in order that LSWAG can warn you when the time has come to act.
Sunday 15th November 2009
Please take the time to visit our FAQs page for the latest details on how to sign up for the Charnwood 2026 Local Development Framework Email Alert, how to view the recent transport assessment, and where to view objections to the development currently registered with Charnwood Borough Council.
Please click here to download the latest Loughborough SWAG Newsletter.
Wednesday 1st July 2009
Please click here to download the July edition of the Loughborough SWAG Newsletter.
Monday 22nd June 2009
IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING
A Public Meeting will be held at Holywell Primary School, Berkeley Road, Loughborough LE11 3SJ at 7.30pm on Thursday 25th June 2009 to discuss and provide additional information about the proposal
to build 3000 HOUSES ON THE APPROACH TO THE OUTWOODS.
It is possible to accommodate only 250 people in the school hall so we have decided to allocate places on a first come first served basis. How will the meeting be structured?
We will present:
1. An overview of the proposal with new information
2. An outline of the planning process, that CBC will follow
3. An update on what has happened since the first public meeting
4. A report on a meeting with Charnwood Borough Council (CBC) Planning Department and our Planning Consultants.
5. A view of what happens next – future events/the importance of your role-what you can do
6. Questions & Answers - Open forum
We look forward to meeting you all.
Loughborough South West Action Group (LSWAG)
Saturday 2nd May 2009
Following our public meeting at the Brush Bowls Club your committee has been very busy.
We have delivered thousands of leaflets to homes across South-West Loughborough, asking the public to write to the Planning Department at Charnwood Borough Council and to express their views on the proposal to build. We also asked you to contact info@loughboroughswag.co.uk for updates on the situation. Many of you replied and we are now able to advise you of progress:
We have changed our name from "KEEP-OUT" to "Loughborough South-West Action Group" in line with our intention to act in a positive, non-emotional way. We have lodged a preliminary objection to the submission.
Consultants have been briefed and are examining the proposals submitted by Smith Stewart Reynolds(SSR). They will consider the legal planning aspects of the submission to build a sustainable urban extension (SUE) of 3000 homes, schools, shops, open spaces, affordable housing and provision for minority groups. Their conclusions will be presented to Charnwood Borough Council. We understand that the original backer has pulled out, but that SSR are seeking new backers, so the proposal has not been withdrawn.
We have joined forces with Haddon Way Residents Association and with Woodthorpe Residents Association. We thank them for their support.
We have found that most if not all of the proposed dwellings would be built in the proposed Charnwood Forest Park. Leicestershire County Council have told us it is up to Charnwood Borough Council to make its proposals for the nature of the Park. If the SSR proposal is approved the natural state of this area would be changed for ever. Your walks and views could be urbanised. Please look on our website for more information.
We have managed to get several articles in the local press and a prominent mention in a local leaflet delivered throughout Outwoods and Nanpantan. There is now considerable awareness locally, but not in the wider area of the town and beyond. We intend to continue to seek publicity and we need your help.
Charnwood Borough Council Planners will, in June,start compiling and analysing all the comments made about The Outwoods 3000 Houses submission.They will then make their recommendations to the Councillors for a decision, in the Autumn.
You should not assume that the submission will be rejected. Planners have to take into account public opinion. Emails or letters to planners from hundreds or thousands of people are needed. This means we should all write in and say whether we should preserve this particularly beautiful countryside from houses (and there is a mention of a bypass).
We need more people to know about the SSR proposal. Remember, you, Paula Radcliffe, Seb Coe and thousands of graduates and others across the world have enjoyed these fields and woods. People come from miles around to enjoy the serenity. Would they want their children and grandchildren to be able to enjoy the same privilege. If so, ask them to write to the planners and to email info@loughboroughswag.co.uk. Then, we'll keep you and them up to date.
Public Exhibition
Proposed development of up to 50 homes on land off Bramcote Road, Loughborough
Charles Church invites you to attend a public exhibition on the
above proposals for development at Bramcote Road, Loughborough on Wednesday 16th November 2011 3.30pm - 7.30pm at Woodbrook Vale High School, Grasmere Road, Loughborough.
The public exhibition is open to all members of the local
community and will provide an opportunity to view the proposals and speak with members of the Charles Church development team. There will be the opportunity to express your views and the opportunity to submit your comments.
Sunday 20th February 2011
Loughborough South West Action Group has been campaigning for two years to save the land across the South West of Loughborough leading up to the Outwoods from a proposal to build 3000 houses with schools, shops and other facilities, together with a bypass between the A6 and MI at Junction 23.
The next Loughborough South West Community Forum meeting will take place at 6.30pm on Monday 7th March 2011 at Holywell Free Church, Berkeley Road, Loughborough LE11 3SJ. It is vitally important to attend if you want to save this Green Space –from the bulldozers.
Although it is designated as an Area of Particularly Attractive Countryside, this is not a protective designation and therefore permission for development might be granted. We believe that this may be our best chance to stop the destruction!
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD PLANNING BACKGROUND INFO
The meeting will be attended by local Councillors and Planning Officers who need to hear your views on the Green Spaces that you value.
Leicestershire County Council launched a Green Space consultation exercise, which ends on 15th April 2011 and this is what they say:
“Why are we asking?”
Answer:
The Council launched the idea because the Government’s Localism Policy aims to give local communities a greater say on planning decisions affecting their areas. Ministers are also proposing to create a new “Valued Green Spaces” designation. Understanding which green spaces local people particularly value will help local communities and councils decide where new homes and other developments needed by local communities are best located. At the moment, Leicestershire has green wedges around Leicester, Loughborough, Hinckley and Coalville. Residents have been campaigning for further green wedges to be designated and other areas of countryside to be protected.
You can also have your say by going to www.leicestershire.gov.uk . Scroll down to “Do it online”, click on “Have your say” go to the left hand panel and click on “Current/future consultations” and follow the links or write to Andrew Simmonds, Chief Executive’s Office, Leicestershire County Council, County Hall, Leicester LE3 8RA.
We hope to see you at the meeting and many thanks for your support.
Please help NOW - we need your help to prevent our wonderful countryside from destruction!
Saturday 15th January 2011
Loughborough South-West Action Group (LSWAG) has been maintaining an active, though low profile, stance since the Spring of 2010, but has had little to announce until now.
We have kept in regular contact with Councillors and Planners at County and Borough level. No policy decisions have been taken by them since the run-up to the General Election, when the Conservatives said they would scrap the Regional Housing Targets which led to the proposal to build on our local area. The Coalition Government took power and duly invalidated the targets.
In recent weeks, the courts have overturned the Government’s scrapping of housing targets, but this is likely to be remedied fairly quickly, but some developers may rush applications forward. In the meantime, planning has been hampered by the absence of any guidance as to the methodology to be applied to determine the number of houses needed. The Localism Bill is now going through Parliament and will enable planners to function from a position of certainty. See http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2010-11/localism.html for details.
In the meantime, Leicestershire County Council and Charnwood Borough Council have been working on a Charnwood Forest Regional Park proposal, which takes in a wide area around the west and south of Loughborough. LSWAG has seen this as an opportunity to make the area around The Outwoods less attractive to developers. We have had difficulty in gleaning any information about what is proposed, but after several approaches, Charnwood Borough Council has published a report compiled by consultants. We are assured that its recommendations will go forward to form part of the Charnwood Core Plan for future development of Charnwood. Details of the report may be found at http://www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/ppg17_open_spaces_sport_and_recreation_study. Our enquiries have reinforced to the planners the value placed on The Outwoods landscape by the public in general.
Leicestershire County Council recently wrote to all County Councillors and Town and Parish Councils asking them to comment on what additional Green Spaces were desirable to protect particularly precious open space from development. Your committee has asked the County Councillors for our area to demand that an area adjacent to The Outwoods be designated Green Space, again to prevent development. The matter will come up for public consultation in the New Year, primarily through the Area Forums. We will advise you of time and venue. It is vital that you participate.
Planning officers have continued to do groundwork and have recently published the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA). This sets out guidelines which must be met before sizeable areas of land can be considered for building more than ten houses. It then lists, with plans, areas of land throughout Charnwood, which have been put forward by interested parties, and comments on conformation to the guidelines. Details can be found at http://www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/shlaa. Readers should note that this document is guidance which will help in formulating the Core Plan and is not, in itself, policy.
Loughborough South-West Action Group will be keeping an ear to the ground and will keep you abreast of events. Charnwood Borough’s Lead Councillor for Planning has recently said that Charnwood Borough Council will go out to public consultation on the revised Core Strategy, which will inform the Local Development Framework, sometime later in the year. Individuals and organisations should be aware that previous submissions relating to existing proposals will not be carried forward. Therefore we must all be aware of what is in the new plans and act as soon as they are published. The consultation will last only six weeks. Please make your friends and neighbours aware of our website and ask them to submit their email addresses through this website in order that LSWAG can warn you when the time has come to act.
Sunday 15th November 2009
Please take the time to visit our FAQs page for the latest details on how to sign up for the Charnwood 2026 Local Development Framework Email Alert, how to view the recent transport assessment, and where to view objections to the development currently registered with Charnwood Borough Council.
Please click here to download the latest Loughborough SWAG Newsletter.
Wednesday 1st July 2009
Please click here to download the July edition of the Loughborough SWAG Newsletter.
Monday 22nd June 2009
IMPORTANT PUBLIC MEETING
A Public Meeting will be held at Holywell Primary School, Berkeley Road, Loughborough LE11 3SJ at 7.30pm on Thursday 25th June 2009 to discuss and provide additional information about the proposal
to build 3000 HOUSES ON THE APPROACH TO THE OUTWOODS.
It is possible to accommodate only 250 people in the school hall so we have decided to allocate places on a first come first served basis. How will the meeting be structured?
We will present:
1. An overview of the proposal with new information
2. An outline of the planning process, that CBC will follow
3. An update on what has happened since the first public meeting
4. A report on a meeting with Charnwood Borough Council (CBC) Planning Department and our Planning Consultants.
5. A view of what happens next – future events/the importance of your role-what you can do
6. Questions & Answers - Open forum
We look forward to meeting you all.
Loughborough South West Action Group (LSWAG)
Saturday 2nd May 2009
Following our public meeting at the Brush Bowls Club your committee has been very busy.
We have delivered thousands of leaflets to homes across South-West Loughborough, asking the public to write to the Planning Department at Charnwood Borough Council and to express their views on the proposal to build. We also asked you to contact info@loughboroughswag.co.uk for updates on the situation. Many of you replied and we are now able to advise you of progress:
We have changed our name from "KEEP-OUT" to "Loughborough South-West Action Group" in line with our intention to act in a positive, non-emotional way. We have lodged a preliminary objection to the submission.
Consultants have been briefed and are examining the proposals submitted by Smith Stewart Reynolds(SSR). They will consider the legal planning aspects of the submission to build a sustainable urban extension (SUE) of 3000 homes, schools, shops, open spaces, affordable housing and provision for minority groups. Their conclusions will be presented to Charnwood Borough Council. We understand that the original backer has pulled out, but that SSR are seeking new backers, so the proposal has not been withdrawn.
We have joined forces with Haddon Way Residents Association and with Woodthorpe Residents Association. We thank them for their support.
We have found that most if not all of the proposed dwellings would be built in the proposed Charnwood Forest Park. Leicestershire County Council have told us it is up to Charnwood Borough Council to make its proposals for the nature of the Park. If the SSR proposal is approved the natural state of this area would be changed for ever. Your walks and views could be urbanised. Please look on our website for more information.
We have managed to get several articles in the local press and a prominent mention in a local leaflet delivered throughout Outwoods and Nanpantan. There is now considerable awareness locally, but not in the wider area of the town and beyond. We intend to continue to seek publicity and we need your help.
Charnwood Borough Council Planners will, in June,start compiling and analysing all the comments made about The Outwoods 3000 Houses submission.They will then make their recommendations to the Councillors for a decision, in the Autumn.
You should not assume that the submission will be rejected. Planners have to take into account public opinion. Emails or letters to planners from hundreds or thousands of people are needed. This means we should all write in and say whether we should preserve this particularly beautiful countryside from houses (and there is a mention of a bypass).
We need more people to know about the SSR proposal. Remember, you, Paula Radcliffe, Seb Coe and thousands of graduates and others across the world have enjoyed these fields and woods. People come from miles around to enjoy the serenity. Would they want their children and grandchildren to be able to enjoy the same privilege. If so, ask them to write to the planners and to email info@loughboroughswag.co.uk. Then, we'll keep you and them up to date.
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