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by Alan Dean on 20 April, 2016
The planning appeal about the latest proposed development behind Tesco and the Coop on Cambridge Road, Stansted begins next Tuesday, April 26th.
You are warmly welcome to attend to show your interest in what happens at this 14 Cambridge Road central site; especially if you agree with your councillors that the appealed scheme would be an overdevelopment that will increase nearby traffic hazards and if you want to see it dismissed by the planning inspector. Your moral support could be important.
The information you need is:
The Hearing which is scheduled to last two days will commence on Tuesday 26 April 2016 at 10am.
Council Offices
London Road
Saffron Walden
Essex
CB11 4ER
Please note that there are only Blue Badge Parking facilities on site; Other car parking facilities are available at Swan Meadow CB10 1DA – a long term public ‘pay and display’ car park.
This is the formal notification letter.
If you can, do go along for as long as you can to show that the people of Stansted care what happens to this site. Just being there will send a message to the Inspector that Stansted people agree with Uttlesford and Stansted Parish councillors that this is the wrong scheme and that Stansted deserves something better.
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Just doing my weekly read of your Blog for Stansted planning and was interested to know whether there were any more plans around Bentfield Green (hopefully not) as I saw a post on Stansted Really Matters to this effect so was wondering if this was going to be discussed today as well?
Kind Regards,
Ian
Further sites in Stansted have been put forward by landowners. We are several months away from considering them as a broad distribution strategy has to be decided first. So nothing about sites being discussed today apart from the Cambridge Road site behind Tesco at an appeal hearing.
When are R4U and the Lib Dems going to recognise that their being on the local plan working group accomplishes nothing beyond providing cover for Rolfe and his idiot colleagues?
Rolfe has NO planning experience and has learned nothing from the cock-up of the last draft plan (several years and about £2million wasted but who is counting) yet the arrogant clown remains in control of the process. It should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that allowing Rolfe to continue his cack-handed, politicised approach to delivering a local plan can only end in yet another failure.
I pity those who have to remain in Uttlesford.
Apologies for hijacking this thread a little but humour me.
I see that a local Labour activist has proposed that Jim Ketteridge be honoured by the town council for his long service to Saffron Walden and this has been enthusiastically taken up by Robert Chambers.
Any endorsement from Chambers is worthless.
Let us briefly consider the ‘achievements’ of Ketteridge at the district council. Picked a duff CEO when there were good external candidates available. Introduced the cabinet system to concentrate ‘power’ in the hands of himself and a few cronies. Oversaw the bulk of the preparation of the draft local plan that was thrown out in December 2014 at some cost in time and coin.
At the town level he argued hard against fighting the Kier appeal with dire threats about the consequences, that alone should disqualify him from any honorary recognition. Currently his ex-colleagues are refusing to reimburse the town council for the costs they incurred fighting that appeal.
Something to consider: the full council were cozened into voting against fighting the Kier appeal on the basis of two opinions from barristers, both of which depended on the Kier site being in an allocation site in the draft local plan. That position ceased to have any relevance in December 2014 when the inspector threw out the draft plan.
The obvious question, particularly directed at the chief legal officer, is WHY wasn’t the full council informed of the new position and allowed to vote again with the benefit of up to date legal opinion? There was plenty of time, the Kier appeal was held in March. The behaviour of UDC leaves much to be desired though it should be recognised that the cabinet was the prime mover and the Tory majority were like sheep when votes were called for.