The planning application has been rejected. We saved the fields. Thank you for your support.
September 2, 2021
STOP Building on the Green Fields of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Final supporters
Georgeham Parish is in the North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Its villages have more than exceeded the minimum provision for new houses specified in the North Devon and Torridge Local Plan 2011 – 2031. It is only summer 2021; the number granted permission in Croyde is over 70, nearly double the minimum number specified in the Local Plan. More applications for houses in the Parish are going through the planning system.
Based on the additional housing that has been built since 2016, there is overwhelming evidence that new houses built here (unless genuinely affordable) go largely to commercial holiday lets. Local people cannot compete with the prices paid for houses by commercial business and second homeowners, who also often holiday let their properties.
Building houses for commercial holiday lets is breaking down the sustainability of the community as local people can no longer afford to live in the Parish and are driven out.
The result is that the finite green field areas of the AONB are being destroyed to build houses for commercial holiday use rather than for homes for permanent residence.
Developers are trying to get around statutory protections and planning provisions for AONB’s that only permit the building of houses on green field areas in extremely limited circumstances. Developers are using the current inadequate 5 year housing supply for the whole of North Devon to build houses located on green sites in the AONB, profiting business at the expense of escalating harm to the natural landscape and local communities.
The worrying effect of this government policy is its untold permanent harm to AONB’s and the natural environment and the long term sustainability of their local communities.
The latest planning application of this type is 73649 for 5 market value houses.
There are other ongoing applications for housing developments in the Parish that will result in loss of green fields. See application 72677 for a housing development off North Buckland Road, Georgeham.
Please sign this petition to object to the planning applications that propose building houses which are not part of the strategic plan for this area. These undeveloped green fields are part of the AONB, which has Statutory Protection, which should not be ignored. The petition will be forwarded to the local MP and District Councilors.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
August 4, 2021
August 2, 2021
The momentum is undeniable now. People are seeing through these excuses for destroying our green fields.
Reached 100 supporters
July 30, 2021
270 Comments
Most of the houses built are unaffordable to local people and will end up as second homes. Wages are so low here. 2nd home ownership needs to stop as it is destroying and dividing local communities. No green space, of outstanding natural beauty should ever be built on.
Not only will this have a monumental impact on this beautiful landscape and it’s nature forever, this area simple cannot sustain that extra traffic and people. RNLI are already struggling to keep people safe in the water at croyde.
The AONB is subject to Statutory Protection, this should not be ignored! Particularly in. a small village that is getting swallowed up by large developments that the infrastructure can't handle and is detrimental to the community and visitors.
Please no more building in Croyde and the surrounding areas. What will be left? The developers dont care about the area. They want to make a quick buck and move on to the next cash cow. The buyers will be investors with the houses empty for 6 months of the year. ENOUGH!
Yet more holiday housing will destroy the very reasons why people come to visit such a highly protected area, and will result in more traffic chaos and problems for businesses who won't be able to source local staff who can no longer afford to live here.
Devon as a whole is being ruined by mass development. Most of the homes are too expensive for true devonians to buy so people from outside our county are moving in as these homes are cheaper than where they live. We should be only building a few homes here for people born here in Devon so that they can stay living in or near the village they grew up in to keep Devon, Devonian!
Please stop this madness,don’t let greed destroy your beautiful country .
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The planning application has been rejected. We saved the fields. Thank you for your support.
September 2, 2021
STOP Building on the Green Fields of Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Final supporters
Georgeham Parish is in the North Devon Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Its villages have more than exceeded the minimum provision for new houses specified in the North Devon and Torridge Local Plan 2011 – 2031. It is only summer 2021; the number granted permission in Croyde is over 70, nearly double the minimum number specified in the Local Plan. More applications for houses in the Parish are going through the planning system.
Based on the additional housing that has been built since 2016, there is overwhelming evidence that new houses built here (unless genuinely affordable) go largely to commercial holiday lets. Local people cannot compete with the prices paid for houses by commercial business and second homeowners, who also often holiday let their properties.
Building houses for commercial holiday lets is breaking down the sustainability of the community as local people can no longer afford to live in the Parish and are driven out.
The result is that the finite green field areas of the AONB are being destroyed to build houses for commercial holiday use rather than for homes for permanent residence.
Developers are trying to get around statutory protections and planning provisions for AONB’s that only permit the building of houses on green field areas in extremely limited circumstances. Developers are using the current inadequate 5 year housing supply for the whole of North Devon to build houses located on green sites in the AONB, profiting business at the expense of escalating harm to the natural landscape and local communities.
The worrying effect of this government policy is its untold permanent harm to AONB’s and the natural environment and the long term sustainability of their local communities.
The latest planning application of this type is 73649 for 5 market value houses.
There are other ongoing applications for housing developments in the Parish that will result in loss of green fields. See application 72677 for a housing development off North Buckland Road, Georgeham.
Please sign this petition to object to the planning applications that propose building houses which are not part of the strategic plan for this area. These undeveloped green fields are part of the AONB, which has Statutory Protection, which should not be ignored. The petition will be forwarded to the local MP and District Councilors.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
August 4, 2021
August 2, 2021
The momentum is undeniable now. People are seeing through these excuses for destroying our green fields.
Reached 100 supporters
July 30, 2021
270 Comments
On a Darracott a equestrian field the owners daughter is putting in to build a house. If this goes ahead every field will have pop up stabling and horses that are not looked after just in the chance of getting a house on prime coastal land.
Most of the houses built are unaffordable to local people and will end up as second homes. Wages are so low here. 2nd home ownership needs to stop as it is destroying and dividing local communities. No green space, of outstanding natural beauty should ever be built on.
Not only will this have a monumental impact on this beautiful landscape and it’s nature forever, this area simple cannot sustain that extra traffic and people. RNLI are already struggling to keep people safe in the water at croyde.
The AONB is subject to Statutory Protection, this should not be ignored! Particularly in. a small village that is getting swallowed up by large developments that the infrastructure can't handle and is detrimental to the community and visitors.
Please no more building in Croyde and the surrounding areas. What will be left? The developers dont care about the area. They want to make a quick buck and move on to the next cash cow. The buyers will be investors with the houses empty for 6 months of the year. ENOUGH!
Yet more holiday housing will destroy the very reasons why people come to visit such a highly protected area, and will result in more traffic chaos and problems for businesses who won't be able to source local staff who can no longer afford to live here.
Devon as a whole is being ruined by mass development. Most of the homes are too expensive for true devonians to buy so people from outside our county are moving in as these homes are cheaper than where they live. We should be only building a few homes here for people born here in Devon so that they can stay living in or near the village they grew up in to keep Devon, Devonian!
Please stop this madness,don’t let greed destroy your beautiful country .
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On a Darracott a equestrian field the owners daughter is putting in to build a house. If this goes ahead every field will have pop up stabling and horses that are not looked after just in the chance of getting a house on prime coastal land.