26 SEWERAGE DRAINAGE FOUL WATER DISPOSAL SOUTHERN WATER CONDITIONS WD 2015 0090 HERSTMONCEUX OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION 70 VILLAGE HOUSES GREEN BELT

26 SEWERAGE - WD/2015/0090/MAO

FOUL WATER - The other side (south) of Lime Park there is a sewage treatment plant that serves Chapel Row and Church Road residents but has too small a capacity to be considered for the extra 70 houses in Herstmonceux. This picture shows a JCB excavating near the treatment plant. Note the new build seen in the top right hand corner of this photograph.

WD/2015/0090/MAO - CONDITION 26 SEWERAGE FOUL WATER DRAINAGE

26. No development shall commence on the development approved by this permission until a scheme for the provision and implementation of foul drainage works has been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The scheme shall include a survey of the off-site foul sewerage system which will connect the development to the Windmill Hill Wastewater Treatment Works to assess the condition and capacity of the existing sewerage system. The submitted details shall identify any necessary upgrading in the form of either additional off-site sewers or improvements to existing sewers to
provide the necessary capacity for the development hereby approved. Any works required to upgrade the infrastructure sufficiently to provide capacity for the new development shall be undertaken prior to acceptance of any of the development's foul sewage. The foul drainage works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved plans before the associated buildings to which they relate are occupied. DF02(M)

REASON: To protect water quality and to secure a satisfactory standard of development, having regard to SPO12, SPO13 and WCS14 to the Wealden Core Strategy Local Plan 2013, Saved Policy CS2 of the adopted Wealden Local Plan 1998, coupled with the requirements of paragraph 109 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012. With regard to Regulation 35 of the Development Management Procedure Order 2015, it is essential to avoid increasing the risk of off-site flooding, that the condition adopts the precommencement format.

MAJOR OUTLINE APPLICATION HERSTMONCEUX WD/2015/0090/MAO - CONDITIONS

The officer dealing with the above application for Wealden District Council is Graham Kean. His Memorandum dated 12 May 2015 records these observation for Mrs Claire Turner:

1.2. In accordance with that condition:

· A survey has been undertaken by the Sewerage Undertaker (Southern Water) which has resulted in a Section 98 Sewer Requisition in order to provide a suitable offsite sewer for the disposal of foul water from the development. Southern Water’s reference is SWS-S98-000519 v2, dated 10/11/2017 (copy of letter attached in Appendix 1) and has been accepted and payment made in order to progress; and · A full drainage design has been undertaken for the onsite foul drainage

The site is located off Gardner Street, to the south-east of Herstmonceux, and is centered on national grid reference E563798, N112404.

Existing public foul sewers have been located within Gardner Street to the north. To the northwest, within Gardner Street, is a foul network which runs east-west before running north to a pumping station (Gardner Street WPS). The pump main from the existing pumping station runs south to Gardner Street and then west-east along Gardner Street, discharging into a gravity main approximately 300m east of the site. This gravity sewer runs north-east to the Windmill Hill Waste Water Works.

3.6. A second foul network runs from a point to the south of the site discharging into the Lime Park Herstmonceux Waste Water Works, approximately 300m to the south.

The existing site is greenfield and no existing connections to foul infrastructure have been identified.

4.2. Investigations were undertaken as to whether the existing Lime Park Waste Water Works could be connected to under gravity and it was confirmed that the works themselves were not adequately sized to receive flows from a further 70 residential dwellings and would require reconstruction and consenting.

4.3. Any foul drainage solution would need to be received by existing or new infrastructure to the north of the site and would require a pumped solution, to overcome the topography.

4.4. Under Section 98 of the Water Industry Act, Southern Water were instructed to progress a solution of the offsite infrastructure upgrades required to support the development. Appendix 1 contains the offer letter received from Southern Water under this process.

4.5. The technical solution offered by Southern Water is to provide new and improved infrastructure in Chapel Row and Gardner Street as part of the Section 98 Requisition.

A gravity system of foul drainage has been proposed, based upon the approved illustrative layout, which collects the waste from the 70 units and drains to the south-west corner of the site, adjacent to Chapel Row.

5.3. A private pumping station has been proposed adjacent to Chapel Row which will collect the foul flows and pump them into the proposed foul rising main provided by Southern Water under the Section 98 application.

Pumping station design (Private)

5.6.1. The design of the pumping station has been based upon the following design standards and documents:

· BS EN 752; and

· Building Regulations 2010 part H.

5.6.2. Storage capacity within the pump station has been provided in accordance with the requirements setout by Building Regulations, Clause 2.39. The receiving chamber has been sized to contain 24 hour inflow to allow for disruption of service. The following design criteria has been applied using the mix of residential units and flow volumes (in accordance with British Water Flows and Loads 4) below:

5.6.4. Due to the overall depth of the pump chamber installation (circa 6.5m) it is likely to be adversely impacted by groundwater, which has been profiled at a depth of 42.000m AOD in the area. Additional measures both in the final design and construction of the chamber will be required to counter buoyancy and groundwater infiltration of the excavation.

CONTACT SOUTHERN WATER

Enquiries regarding the Water Regulations.

Telephone: 01962 716042 (Lines open 8am–3pm. After 3pm please leave a message and we will contact you the following working day).

For billing enquiries please call 0330 303 0277 (calls charged at local rate) or for technical enquiries call 0330 303 0368 (calls charged at local rate).

Fax: 01962 716208 Email: water.regs@southernwater.co.uk

You can write to Southern Water at:

Water Regulations
Sparrowgrove House
Southern Water
Otterbourne
Hampshire, SO21 2SW

Steve Collins: steveM.collins@southernwater.co.uk
Tel: 01903 272056

Paul Fitz-Hugh: paul.fitzhugh@southernwater.co.uk
Tel: 01903 272054

Developer services helpdesk: 0330 303 0119
Automated telephone service: 0330 303 1263
Billing and account enquiries: 0330 303 0277
Water and wastewater enquiries: 0330 303 0368

LATIMER, THAKEHAM, CLARION (GROUP) - LIST OF PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT

Peter Rawlinson - Gleeson Strategic Land

Ben Rainbow - Arboricultural & Biodiversity Officer

Steve Tuhey - Managing Director, Thakeham Client

Richard White, Director of Land and Planning at Latimer & Clarion Housing Group

LATIMER DEVELOPMENTS - Previously: William Sutton Developments Limited

Christopher John Hatfield

Ruth Margaret Cooke

David Simon Fordham

Austen Barry Reid

Rupert Owen Sebag-Montefiore

Mark Christopher Rogers

David Anthony Lewis

Michelle Reynolds

Southern Water - Nick Claxton Team Manager – Flood Risk Management & Revai Kinsella, Principal Drainage Officer

WD/2015/0090/ HERSTMONCEUX VILLAGE CONDITIONS A - Z INDEX

- Conditions Index A - Z
1. Permission subject to detailed particulars
2. Appearance & Landscape

3. Application for reserved matters in 3 years

4. No dev. without archaeological programme

5. No dev. until written scheme 4. published

6. Contamination to be reported subsequently

7. Details code of construction TB approved

8. Temporary contractor provisions

9. Noise restrictions working hours

10. Details brickwork finishes
11. Joinery details, windows, doors

12. Details hard & soft landscaping

13. Details screening, trees, hedges

14. Planting trees Chapel Row, Museum

15. Landscape management plan

16. Wildlife management details

17. Japanese Knotweed survey

18. Access prior to building works

19. Visibility splays entrance A271

20. Internal site access roads

21. Car parking details

22. Garages no commercial use

23. No felling trees hedgerows

24. Tree protection existing TPO

25. Bins refuse collection & disposal

26. Foul drainage sewerage works

27. Surface water drainage

28. No discharges foul water

29. Flood resilient buildings

30. Surface water drainage

31. Light pollution AONB

32 Renewable energy

33. No permitted dev buildings

34. No permitted gates/fences

36. Limited to included docs

NPPF - NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK A - Z INDEX

- Ministerial foreword

- Introduction
- Sustainable development achievement
1. Economic considerations
2. Town centres vitality

3. Supporting the rural economy

4. Promoting sustainable transport
5. Communications infrastructure
6. Homes wide choices
7. Good design

8. Healthy communities
9. Green belt protection

10. Climate change & flooding
11. Conserving natural environment
12. Conserving enhancing history

13. Sustainable minerals
- Plan making

- Decision taking

- Annex 1- Implementation
- Annex 2 - Glossary

- Annex 3 - Docs replaced

HERSTMONCEUX ACTION GROUP

There has never been an action group representing the interests of so many residents in this peaceful Sussex backwater. To date, planning battles have been contained, such that local people were content to let neighbours object to smaller residential developments.

This all changed when a former estate agent was seen surveying Lime Cross and speaking to neighbours about his intention (or the intention of family members) to apply for planning consent for upwards of 70 houses, where for many years Wealden District Council and the Parish Council have been saying there should be no development. Then an opportunity for a windfall £17 million pounds reared its head. We think it speaks mountains that the Parish Council simply redrew the development boundaries to accommodate such a development. It's a 'U' turn with money at the root of the deal. Who then stands to profit. Not the villagers who are all opposed to the plan. The villagers do not want 140 extra houses in Herstmonceux, and that is what will happen if 70 additional houses are built on the field at Lime Cross. We'd like to see some new faces on the Parish Council. Some people who will truly represent the wishes of the people.

WD/2015/0090/MAO - GLEESON DEVELOPMENTS LTD

This application is not only contrary to Wealden's Local Plan, but is considered by many to be downright dangerous without the appropriate visibility splay. The A271 is a narrow country road that is already overloaded - with many traffic jams in the village high street causing motorists serious delays on occasion. The increase in traffic from a dense residential development at this location is nothing short of madness.

ORIGINAL SITE PLAN - You may have noticed that there are only forty-nine units shown on the above site plan - and it is still crowded. It is unclear from this plan if some of the plots shown are garages adjacent to a house. It is therefore open to interpretation. The real problem is that the village of Herstmonceux does need more affordable housing. Gratefully, there are other sites that are far more appropriate, and will not pose injury to a site of considerable local historic interest. This field is way outside the village development boundary. See the official boundary below.

AFFORDABILITY STATEMENT & CAPITALIST MORALS - OR POLICY FRAUD

It is because Council's have been dragging their heels so much and not planning for new housing that we are in this mess. It is not just Wealden, it is ingrained in civil servants to apply rules to prevent development or change. In this case the problem is so bad that central government has had to direct them to change their attitudes. Fantastic, but why give locals the job of developing (in effect) national policy in the first place. National policy is what counts. Where do we need homes in the UK and what elements of the countryside are essential to preserve. It's a balancing act that local officials, with close ties to landowners should not be in a position to profit from. Lord Nolan advised that no council officer should spend more than 5 years in any one council, to prevent cosy relationships forming, this being a trigger to corruption. The next question is, how long have the Parish Council members been councillors? The answer is a lot longer than that. The same applies to Charles Lant and some of his merry crew, many of which bear a grudge and are vindictive in private sessions but say all the right things in open session.

ACCIDENT CHART - This map is likely to change with more markers in the Herstmonceux area on the east side of the village as the inadequate visibility splay gets to work catching out unwary motorists and residents who have relied on Graham Kean to do the right thing in ensuring their long term safety - rather than giving the developers virtually free license to develop a site in spite of the obvious limitations.

MORALLY REPUGNANT

Any development where the owners of land take advantage of - the at present - lack of precision in local plans, and fail to observe the rules as to affordable and sustainable development goals, as per the United Nations agendas, is in our view morally repugnant. They should be ashamed of themselves as they spend their blood money, obtained by rape of the rural environment.

There is a national shortage of affordable homes, there is no shortage of executive homes that are out of reach of young families.

High rents and mortgages are every bit a chain around your neck as with these poor fellows. What gives any human the right to enslave another human being? The answer to that is the State. When the State promotes policies and practices that, in effect, allow one human to profit so hugely at the expense of others - then the State is to blame.

LACKING PRIVACY - Any houses built here will be overlooked by anyone using Herstmonceux Museum. The reverse is also true. How will planners overcome the loss of amenity for Herstmonceux Museum and ensure privacy for houses in this field. Will it mean windows facing away from the Museum? Would that not mean that the usual way of solar heating a house would be prevented. Why? Because the view shown here is looking north, hence, houses should be facing this way (towards the Museum) to capture incoming sunshine. This is the view from the rear (balcony) of the Museum towards the village.

COUNCIL OFFICERS HAVING CONDUCT OF PLANNING MATTERS RELATING TO HERSTMONCEUX MUSEUM

Victoria (Vic) Scarpa

HMMMM - Tearing up the green belt for a tidy little profit on windfall sites across England is a harrowing experience for locals who moved to secluded country locations to be at one with nature. Windfall indeed, huge sums of money for property developers who have no qualms about raping the land for personal gain. You may consider that to be immoral like so many other people, but a lot of people turn to the dark side to feather their nests.

This is another hole sunk just above the Museum, in line with the water flow to the ancient well that Wealden seem to have forgotten is a feature to be protected from water contamination. We wonder what the shareholders and other investors will make of it when they discover in years to come that the controlling minds of so many corporations banded together to try and get around contamination - in other cases this is achieved with bogus reports. We'll have to wait and see if that comes to pass in this case. Wealden have a duty to protect the historic environment, a duty that have failed to stand by in years gone by, spending enormous sums of public money trying to hide the truth of the Generating Works complex. Around £500,000 of taxpayer's money in fact. In another landmark drainage case they tried to prove that water flowed uphill by erasing the levels on a map. Is this more of the same?

BRITAIN'S ARE (FOR THE MOST PART) SLAVES, CONTRARY TO THE POPULAR ANTHEM

Would you buy a house built on green belt? Anyone purchasing homes in Herstmonceux that destroys open spaces and harms historic interests should be ashamed of themselves. Why encourage greedy property developers to do the wrong thing, when by renting or buying in appropriate development areas you are setting a good example in sustainable terms. Herstmonceux lacks school spaces for additional children, doctors and shops, meaning more carbon miles and global warming.

The houses proposed are not eco friendly, have no charging points for electric vehicles and no energy generation or heat capture devices. They are more of the same energy gobbling houses that fat-cat builders love, because that is all they (appear) to understand. We await comment on this and other matters from the Clarion Housing Group Limited, Thakekam Homes Limited and Latimer Developments Limited all partners to this proposal. It is yet to be confirmed just who is doing what and when and we look forward to receiving further information.

The case officer is Claire Turner. The permission was signed off by Kelvin Williams, now due to retire in 2019 with Christopher Bending taking over as Head of Planning and Environmental services in 2018.

DRAINAGE ISSUE - We've never seen a site with so many trenches dug and boreholes sunk. The developers are proposing locating houses on the top of a hill leading down to an ancient well that has been in use for over 115 years in its present capacity of providing drinking water to the locality. Are they mad? These property (or those who drew up the original proposals) magnates appear to have let the lure of profits go to their heads. Water flows downhill chaps. This is a basic rule of physics that no amount of smoke and mirrors can get around. Then there is the fact that water is the most powerful solvent known to man. In other words, any chemicals that comes from gardens or other DIY concerning property in this location, will be dissolved and will leach into the ancient well, potentially poisoning those who use that facility.

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