Venue: St Mary’s Junior School, Sugden Road
Date: 18th May 2017
Time: 8.00pm
The Long Ditton Residents Association have formerly responded to Elmbridge Borough Council.
(Our response can VIEWED HERE)
LDRA Statement
Our main concern is that the Council has prematurely treated Green Belt as an ‘option’ for meeting long term development when Government policy is clear that Green Belt release should only even be considered after all other options have been exhausted.
The Council has undertaken a comprehensive review of the Green Belt in Elmbridge to inform the options currently being considered. Green Belt releases have been suggested as potential options for meeting the objectively assessed housing need (of 9,480 to 2035) as a result.
However, national policy (National Planning Policy Framework) makes it clear that this should only happen in ‘exceptional circumstances’ and after all other options have been explored through the local plan review process. The Housing White Paper (Feb 2017) confirms that there will be no change to national policy but proposes amendments to the NPPF (to be introduced later this year) to make it clear that:
“authorities should amend Green Belt boundaries only when they can demonstrate that they have examined fully all other reasonable options for meeting their identified development requirements, including:
* making effective use of suitable brownfield sites and the opportunities offered by estate regeneration;
* the potential offered by land which is currently underused, including surplus public sector land where appropriate;
* optimising the proposed density of development; and
* exploring whether other authorities can help to meet some of the identified development requirement.”
This process should be applied before coming to the conclusion that there are exceptional circumstances for releasing Green Belt. Options 2 and 3 of the Council’s consultation are therefore premature as other ‘reasonable’ options have not been fully explored. In order for the Council to even consider Green Belt, further ‘urban capacity’ work that goes beyond the Land Availability Assessment, is needed.
LDRA OFFICIAL
THE DEADLINE FOR RESPONDING TO THE ELMBRIDGE BOROUGH COUNCIL’S LOCAL PLAN IS
APPROACHING FAST!!
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON HOW TO RESPOND OR REPLY
OR VIST:
Further to Elmbridge Council’s Local Plan meeting last night at the Civic Centre, the webcast can be viewed here:
LOCAL PLAN CONSULTATION – RESIDENTS MEETING
THE DEADLINE FOR RESPONSE HAS ALSO BEEN EXTENDED TO 24th FEBRUARY
If you have questions on how to respond or need help, please contact us here – contact@longditton.org
YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO RESPOND – RESPONSE CLOSES 24th FEBRUARY!!
Our Greenbelt (including Stokes Field) is under threat, with the Government’s housing shortage. There are new plans to build thousands of new homes on Long Ditton and Hinchley Wood Greenbelt.
These flyers will be posted through your door shortly (if you would like one to be emailed – please contact us here) – contact@longditton.org
IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM ELMBRIDGE BOROUGH COUNCIL!!
There will be a public exhibition on 19th January 2017 at Hinchley Wood school 7-9pm.
Also our Long Ditton councillors have arranged a public meeting on January 24th at 7.45pm at St Mary’s Junior school.
THIS HAS NOW CHANGED DUE TO LARGE NUMBERS ANTICIPATED IN ATTENDING AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT:
JANUARY 24th (AT 8.00PM)
The Council Chamber
Civic Centre
Esher High Street
KT10 9DS
Residents can find out more and have their say. The councils Planning Policy Manager will give a talk on the proposals – Elmbridge Local Plan – Greenbelt Review
FOR SAFETY REASONS ENTRY WILL BE ON A FIRST COME BASIS AND LIMITED TO BETWEEN 170 AND 200 PEOPLE , WITH THE FINAL NUMBER TO BE AGREED WITH THE COUNCIL’S HEALTH & SAFETY OFFICER. PRIORITY WILL BE GIVEN AS FAR AS POSSIBLE TO LONG DITTON RESIDENTS. THE PRESENTATION WILL BE WEBCAST ON www.elmbridge.public-i.tv/core/portal/home AND WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING SUBSEQUENTLY.
PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON TO ANY OTHER LONG DITTON RESIDENTS WHO YOU KNOW.
New proposals for the traffic calming measures for the roads surrounding both the Infant and St Mary’s School have now been submitted. There is a public consultation planned for February 2017.
Our Spring Public Meeting will be held at 8pm on 19th May 2016, at St Mary’s Junior School. Your chance to meet our Surrey and Elmbridge councillors and to ask them questions.
AGM and public meeting
Our AGM will be held at 8pm on 26 November 2015, in St Mary’s Junior School. Our Surrey and Elmbridge councillors will be present and residents have the opportunity to ask them questions directly.
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