Welcome Leckhampton Lanes Residents (LLR)
Firstly a big thank you for the tremendous support given to the LLR GOSW petition. We received over 95% signed letters and our petition was duly submitted to Mrs Louise Harrison (Senior Planning Manager, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire - GOSW) on the 14th Nov. 2005. It did make a difference, the GOSW are now monitoring policy SD2 carefully to enforce three important conditions which they have stipulated must take place before any planning application can be considered:
Joint planning with Cheltenham Borough Council on the extension to the PUA - we had a meeting with CBC in Dec. 2005 (Tracey Birkinshaw - CBC Strategic Land Use Manager), CBC have no plans to develop Leckhampton and have always been opposed to policy SD2.
Greenbelt Review and Phasing, to quote GOSW, 'phasing of strategic sites allows for their review should the Green Belt Review conclude that these were inappropriate' - Leckhampton scored highly in this review as reported in the local press (sorry for the LLR misquotes, the Echo have apologised) - please see Ref. 5
Finally on the sustainability, lack of services and congestion etc. to quote GOSW again, 'No permission will be granted prior to the site's strategic justification'
Working together has strengthened our capacity to influence the GOSW, SWRA and now Cheltenham Borough Council. Our role is to support the excellent work of
We are working on all three of these conditions in discussion with the GOSW (please see follow up letter to Mrs Helen Thomas - Planning Manager Gloucestershire) and our correspondence with the SWRA - Mr Peter Brown, Director of Policy and Planning.
LLR Correspondence
Currently the LLR are preparing a submission and/or meeting with Highways to discuss policy SD2 and their statements made in the TBC Agenda & Objections [Ref. 4] d. 18 October 2005. Please email us, or call if you have other ideas on other future action we might take.
1. Tewkesbury Borough Council Local Plan To 2011 Report Of Public Local Inquiry Into Objections PINSM/G1630/429/5 December 2003 - Mary Travers Ba(Hons) DipTP MRTPI - The Planning Inspectorate.
2. Cheltenham Borough Local Plan Second Review 1991-2011 Inspector's Report, pp 187, DP527 8 March 2005 David Asher BA DipTP MRTPI.
REFERENCES & LINKS
3. Government Office South West statements & objections on the TBC Local Plan, containing the conditions stipulated for policy SD2, via email L. Harrison (Senior Planning Manager, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire).
4. Tewkesbury Borough Council Agenda & Objections, dated 10 October 2005, meeting by full Council in Council Chambers on 18 October 2005 to vote on the TBC Local Plan to 2011, pp 93.
7. Here's the Buchanan Greenbelt (Feb. 2006) report link for reference:
The Cheltenham and Gloucester JSA aimed to differentiate the importance
of protecting different areas of countryside by assigning different weights or
scores to the areas. The officers undertook site visits to key areas within the
Green Belt and these were then scored against the five purposes. A "0"
implied little or no importance, a "1" implied some importance, and "2" implied high importance. These results are provided in Appendix 4.
All potential boundary review sites are assessed given available
information on Green Belt purpose in a table, firstly identifying the amount
of purposes fulfilled by each, and, secondly, by weighting the main
purposes of Green Belt ahead of other purposes (which is based on the
reasons why Green Belt was originally established). Results of these
analyses are provided in Appendix 10.
& the Maps in Appendix 11:
Representing 37 of 39 households on Farm Lane, Kidnappers Lane & Farm Court,
82 of 95 households of The Lanes, Blackthorn End, Chestnut Place, Bryony Bank, Larch Rise, The Alders & The Spindles, 47 of 48 households on Brizen Lane and Nourse Close. ALL 166 households have given support to this letter of petition, with over 300 signatories.
Leckhampton Lanes Residents (LLR)
Ian & Angie Bickerton, Gerry & Jacky Potter - 3 & 18 Brizen Lane, Tel 01242 250473 & 574677
Please email us if you would like to be informed of the anticipated public consultation, we can send you the links, dates and other information.
5. Draft Regional Spatial Strategy: Submitted Version (April 2006) - Open the full document and search for 'Cheltenham Spatial Strategy', - page 60 for the map, and p62 (starting at para. 4.2.40) for the detail on Cheltenham. Public consultation is now underway - June 2006 to August 2006, see above.
6. Gloucestershire County Council Consultation Results - Shaping the Future of Cheltenham and Gloucester to 2026
Work undertaken on behalf of the South West Regional Assembly
2. Cheltenham Borough Local Plan Inquiry (1993) - Inspector's Report, relevant pages to Leckhampton (thanks to Ken Pollock, not available on the CBC website) - it has excellent support material and is very useful background reading.
***** NEWS June 2006 *****
***** GOOD NEWS April 2007 *****
