Why Alan says 'No' to 1200 new 'homes' at Three Elms, Hereford

  I have just submitted the following Planning Objection re Planning Application to build at Three Elms (P162920) to https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/xfp/form/285?id=P162920/F&linkid=162920

The prospective car-dependency impact of this development would worsen Herefordshire Council's prospects for carbon neutrality by 2030, and in day time this is currently a great area for walking in in daytime that I frequently encounter in walking from Belmont to Grandstand Road Co-op, Bobblestock.

    The prospective car-dependency impact of this development would worsen Herefordshire Council's prospects for carbon neutrality by 2030, and in day time this is currently a great area for walking in in that I frequently encounter in walking from Belmont to Grandstand Road Co-op, Bobblestock. This currently allows pedestrians ability to use road as an extension of pavement for 'social distancing', but burgeoning car-dependency in that area would worsen realities for existing locals.

    Further, the inclusion of a community centre in the revised proposals are devoid of viability. Lockdown realities restrict accesss to community centres, and worsen residents' experience of being 'caged in' in living spaces that have got progressively smaller over the past century as developers and planners operate on the basis that THEY THEMSELVES will never have to live in the spaces that they design.

    Overcrowding only increases their profits and social inequalities, their aloofness. Lockdown has led at least one community centre to file for bankruptcy due to lost booking revenues, as I wrote recently in Hereford Times published letter, citing Kingsgate Community Association, London NW6.

    Developers' detachment from local realities also reflects on the poor targeting of the site in terms of hydro-geology. So I urge the planning regulators to say a resounding NO to the developers' proposals for what could not really be called 'homes'. As land owners, perhaps the Church Commissioners concerned are more like the money lenders Christ threw out of the temple than they are followers of His doctrines?

Alan Wheatley

Further reading available at

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/18733495.three-elms-housing-plans-bypass-land-re-submitted/

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59845d3dd482e94a17e70995/t/5f9079dd6215202dbb278335/1603303909152/Objection+to+development+plans+for+the+Three+Elms+site+21102020.pdf

http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/18733495.three-elms-housing-plans-bypass-land-re-submitted/

 

Hereford highways latest highways planning survey deadline 4 Oct 2019

From 'Wye Ruin It?'

Get busy! October 4th deadline

Your voice is needed for the latest consultation on highways planning.

 This is a quick, but important survey. There are 4 questions and you will need to read the background document to answer the questions, but you can just refer to the part that comes up in the survey. (The design of the survey is to generate different questions each time you open it, so we cannot give you the answers).

Please make sure to tell them to stop plans for the bypass, stop expanding road networks and focus on maximising clean, affordable, active and sustainable transport as soon as possible. Click here for details