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SAVE UPPER CUFAUDE FARM (Widgit’s Farm)

SAVE UPPER CUFAUDE FARM (Widgit’s Farm)

Closed — 27 supporters Verified

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Started by Tanya Salah 8 years, 6 months ago
Hi, I am a local resident who feels passionately about the countryside and farmland. I desperately want to save Widgit’s Farm from destruction and development, not only is this a hard working farm but also accompanied with nature filled fields and beautiful surrounding countryside. Cufaude Lane, which is listed as a ‘National Cycle Route’ is slowly losing its identity as we know it! In my view and I’m sure many others, this is a damaging and irretrievable change to our precious environment.

Updates

March 21, 2018

The developers are still pushing their agenda to bury Widgit’s Farm under concrete while ignoring the people who actually live here. I have spent the last few days hammering the local council with formal complaints about the destruction of Cufaude Lane. They think we are going to get tired and walk away but they are dead wrong.

March 21, 2018

The developers trying to pave over our heritage are finally starting to sweat. Our momentum is becoming a wall that they cannot ignore anymore.

16 Comments

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Alan Cozens
8 years ago Featured

The farm is an asset to the area and should be preserved. So many developments are already in progress do we possibly need more in such a rural area? In addition the traffic in the lane is increasing at an alarming rate.

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Tanya Salah · petition starter
8 years ago Featured

It’s funny how when I had applied for planning in the past on a residential property in a cul-de-sac location for a minor extension, it was declined on the grounds of it ‘NOT BEING IN KEEPING WITH THE SURROUNDING SETTING’....yet the councel have no qualms with developing a hard working farm and picturesque countryside with detrimental effects on Cufaude Lane (which is a listed National Cycle Route) and surrounding area!!

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Pat Murphy
8 years ago Featured

It would be a shame if this farm was to be given over to housing development when BDBC have more than enough alternative land supply at Manydown, which was purchased for the SOLE purpose of replacing Local Authority housing stock sold off in the 80's & 90's, which would allow this small farm to continue and prosper. Basingstoke Council please respect our countryside and heritage, please reject any request for development on this land.

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Emma Dilnutt
8 years ago

Keep Bramley rural -enough building !

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Richard Trower
8 years ago

This is a beautiful farm currently blessed with the lambing season. It must not be destroyed.

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Richard Trower
8 years ago

Ribbon development down a single track lane which can't support existing traffic and the rape of a viable farm is totally unacceptable

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Heather Pocock
8 years ago

Please leave this farm alone the tenants have worked hard to make it successful. Develop Manydown and leave Bramley alone it is overdeveloped amd is no longer a rural village.

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Souheil
8 years ago

Questionable integrity and impartiality of the planning process in Basingstoke and Deane! Manydown farm was excluded from the development plan despite it being purchased for that purpose in 1996. Council decided to develop Pyotts Hill and Basingstoke Golf Club but as they lost the court case to develop Pyotts Hill they turned to the Chineham/Popply and now Bramley & Cufaude Lane and still excluded Manydown from the plan!