The local council has formally rejected the land swap proposal for the Ockbrook Greenbelt area. We are now focusing our efforts on ensuring the site remains protected under current planning designations to prevent future development attempts.
May 20, 2015
Final supporters
Please join our Facebook group Ockbrook Action Group.
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SUFFICIENT LAND HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR CURRENT HOUSE BUILDING PROGRAMMES IN EREWASH.
THIS CAMPAIGN WILL NOT BE RESTRICTING PEOPLES ACCESS TO HOUSING
Updates
March 30, 2015
The volume of support has secured us a formal meeting with the local planning department later this week. I am currently drafting a letter to the council to ensure our concerns regarding the Ock Brook flood risk are officially entered into the record.
Reached 100 supporters
March 30, 2015
65 Comments
I know this area. It is a borderline swamp.This whole scheme appears to be the cynical brainchild of people who neither know nor care about the fragile infrastructure of this village. Access would be appalling, a large new estate unsupportable, and if this nightmare scenario came to pass, the new school itelf would be undersized and obselete, anyway!
We strongly oppose this planned development which will lead to further plans to build on green belt around the village and change the nature of Ockbrook significantly for the worse. If the School needs work and money spent on it do this on the existing site.
NO to any development which will encroach into the existing green belt area. The Ridings is far too narrow to allow any further development hence buses some years ago stopped using this particular route through the village!
I fully agree, but I am also concerned about existing infrastructure and access to the proposed new site for the school. The Ridings is a very narrow road and the extra people and traffic going the new site will be put at an unnecessary risk. The new site is the lowest point in Ockbrook, which will impact flood risk and sewage/drainage requirements.
Erewash Borough Council state that Hopwell estates have shown 'a long-standing ambition to build on the greenbelt land'. This land swap gives them the opportunity to fulfil this ambition.
why not re-build the school on the same land where it is, not on land that is not fit for purpose.
The road system to and from Ockbrook is absolutely inadequate for such a development. The typical number of vehicles on new build locations is between two and three per household. The prospect of a further two to three thousand vehicles commuting from the proposed area is unreasonable. Even a smaller development of say 400 houses would generate well in excess of one thousand vehicle movements per day. The Highways Agency should look closely at the potential impact and hazard and threat to public safety of any significant development. The development should not be allowed.
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The local council has formally rejected the land swap proposal for the Ockbrook Greenbelt area. We are now focusing our efforts on ensuring the site remains protected under current planning designations to prevent future development attempts.
May 20, 2015
Final supporters
Please join our Facebook group Ockbrook Action Group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1571668886447152/?ref=ts&fref=ts
SUFFICIENT LAND HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR CURRENT HOUSE BUILDING PROGRAMMES IN EREWASH.
THIS CAMPAIGN WILL NOT BE RESTRICTING PEOPLES ACCESS TO HOUSING
Updates
March 30, 2015
The volume of support has secured us a formal meeting with the local planning department later this week. I am currently drafting a letter to the council to ensure our concerns regarding the Ock Brook flood risk are officially entered into the record.
Reached 100 supporters
March 30, 2015
65 Comments
I walk my dog up here every morning and its beautiful.It would be a travesty to ruin the beauty of our village by allowing this to happen. It would be the start of a slippery slope that would lead that area into becoming one big housing estate. It must not be allowed to go ahead.
I know this area. It is a borderline swamp.This whole scheme appears to be the cynical brainchild of people who neither know nor care about the fragile infrastructure of this village. Access would be appalling, a large new estate unsupportable, and if this nightmare scenario came to pass, the new school itelf would be undersized and obselete, anyway!
We strongly oppose this planned development which will lead to further plans to build on green belt around the village and change the nature of Ockbrook significantly for the worse. If the School needs work and money spent on it do this on the existing site.
NO to any development which will encroach into the existing green belt area. The Ridings is far too narrow to allow any further development hence buses some years ago stopped using this particular route through the village!
I fully agree, but I am also concerned about existing infrastructure and access to the proposed new site for the school. The Ridings is a very narrow road and the extra people and traffic going the new site will be put at an unnecessary risk. The new site is the lowest point in Ockbrook, which will impact flood risk and sewage/drainage requirements.
Erewash Borough Council state that Hopwell estates have shown 'a long-standing ambition to build on the greenbelt land'. This land swap gives them the opportunity to fulfil this ambition.
why not re-build the school on the same land where it is, not on land that is not fit for purpose.
The road system to and from Ockbrook is absolutely inadequate for such a development. The typical number of vehicles on new build locations is between two and three per household. The prospect of a further two to three thousand vehicles commuting from the proposed area is unreasonable. Even a smaller development of say 400 houses would generate well in excess of one thousand vehicle movements per day. The Highways Agency should look closely at the potential impact and hazard and threat to public safety of any significant development. The development should not be allowed.
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I walk my dog up here every morning and its beautiful.It would be a travesty to ruin the beauty of our village by allowing this to happen. It would be the start of a slippery slope that would lead that area into becoming one big housing estate. It must not be allowed to go ahead.