35 DOCUMENTS REPORTS LIST CONDITIONS WD 2015 0090 HERSTMONCEUX OUTLINE PLANNING PERMISSION 70 VILLAGE HOUSES GREEN BELT

35 DOCUMENTS - WD/2015/0090/MAO

BRITISH BEEF - This farm on the outskirts of Herstmonceux, with Windmill Hill in the background, produces milk and beef for Britain and export. If we keep on extending our villages we will have no arable land left to argue about.

WD/2015/0090/MAO - CONDITION 35 LIST OF DOCUMENTS RELIED ON

35. This planning decision relates solely to the information contained within the application form, the following plan(s) and (where appropriate) documents:

Ref. Date Stamped.

* Landscape and Visual Appraisal Ref 22387/A5/AH 16 January 2015
* Planning Statement Ref 22387/A5/JR 16 January 2015
* Design and Access Statement Revision 04 16 January 2015
* Heritage Statement Ref FW/18632 16 January 2015
* Landscape and Biodiversity Management Strategy
* Ref 22387/A5/Landscape 16 January 2015
* Extended Phase 1 Habitat Survey GCN Habitat
* Suitability Assessment 16 January 2015
* Arboricultural Survey Ref PJC/3419/14 16 January 2015
* Transport Assessment Ref ITB9063-003B R 16 January 2015
* Travel Plan Ref ITB9063-004B R 16 January 2015
* Flood Risk Assessment 16 January 2015
* Archaeological Desk Based Assessment Ref SD/18426 16 January 2015
* Statement of Community Involvement Ref 22387/A3/JR 16 January 2015
* Site Location Plan Dwg M04 Rev A 16 January 2015
* Parameters Plan Dwg M06 Rev B 16 January 2015
* Illustrative Layout Dwg M03 Rev H 16 January 2015
* Speed Survey Site 1 11 February 2015
* Speed Survey Site 2 11 February 2015
* Potential Site Access Junction onto A271 Gardener
* Street Dwg ITB9063 GA 002 Rev F (Subject to the
* amendment of the visibility splays in accordance with
* Condition 19 of the planning approval) 13 February 2015
* Geophysical Survey Report Ref J7952 18 February 2015
* Overland Flow Dwg GSL-HERST.10/03 27 April 2015
* Bat Activity Survey 12 May 2015

REASON: For the avoidance of doubt.

NOTE: Should alterations or amendments be required to the approved plans, it will be necessary to apply either under Section 96A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 for non-material alterations or Section 73 of the Act for minor material alterations. An application must be made using the standard application forms and you should consult with us, to establish the correct type of application to be made.

NOTE 1: This permission is subject to an agreement under Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. STN1

NOTE 2: The developer is required to contact the Council as Street Naming & Numbering Authority, in writing, enclosing a site layout plan and the commencement of work on site, to agree a scheme of house/street naming and numbering, and for the allocation of postcodes. Please contact the NLPG Officer, IT Department, at the above address. STN8

NOTE 3: The existing public right(s) of way across the site must remain undisturbed and unobstructed unless or until legally stopped up or diverted prior to the commencement of any of the development hereby permitted. The alignment of any public right of way should be protected throughout the course of development by being clearly demarcated, signed, surfaced or fenced as may be necessary. STN10

NOTE 4: A formal application for connection to the public sewerage system is required in order to serve this development. For further advice, please contact:

Atkins Ltd,
St James House
39A Southgate Street
Winchester
SO23 9EH

NOTE 5: In determining this planning application, the Council has had regard to the requirement to negotiate both positively and pro-actively with the applicant, in line with the guidance at paragraph 187 of the National Planning Policy Framework, and as set out in the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015.

NOTE: Your attention is drawn to the requirements of the Building Act 1984 for the deposit of Plans under the Building Regulations and associated legislation. ACCESS FOR FIRE BRIGADE: Your attention is hereby drawn to the provisions of Section 35 of the East Sussex Act 1981.

DISCHARGE OF CONDITIONS: It is advised that under The Town and Country Planning Act 1990, the Council has up to 8 weeks from the date of an application to discharge any condition(s) and advise the applicant of the Council’s decision. This information should be submitted using the ‘Approval of Details Reserved by Condition’ Form which can be downloaded from the Council’s website. Please note there is also a fee payable for this type of application.

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 www.southernwater.co.uk

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, Tim Watson, 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 and not the interests of those related to local builders.

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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