Land immediately next to us - development proposal

Hoploz

There's a piece of green belt land in my village which someone is talking about building on. There were a couple of schemes suggested. Of course the locals want fewest houses for least impact, however there was talk of the schemes suggested being under-development - if they are going to use the land then it must be more densely built on to meet the borough's building targets!

For the moment it has been shelved but it will happen eventually as the piece of land is on a 'reserve' list, to be used when they run out of non-green-belt plots I guess

Cash-Cows

Until you see the plans it sounds like you are guessing the scale of this development. Why don't you wait for the plans to come out and provide more details then.

kidmugsy

Towser wrote: »

I like it the way it is and don't want change.

Then buy it yourself, in collaboration with others if needs be.

lincroft1710

Is this land defined as green belt on the local planning map? If not then unless the land has one or more of the items on Elsewhere's post (no. 5), then you have very little hope of stopping development.

Barny1979

Towser wrote: »

The Borough Council has sent us a letter:

Proposal: Change of use from Agricultural to Residential (C3)

This isn't a development proposal specifially. It is changing the land use to potentially have houses built on it, this will be probably through a new Local Plan, who are your Local Authority?

If the land use is changed, then potential developers can look at the site as a development site for housing in the future and go through the necessary planning process.

sgun

The key issue is the green belt designation. If it IS green belt then the revisions to Planning Practice Guidance published by the government on October 6th will be relevant as now councils have to show why developing on green belt land is essential.


"The Framework makes clear that, once established, Green Belt boundaries should only be altered in exceptional circumstances, through the preparation or review of the Local Plan."

"Unmet housing need (including for traveller sites) is unlikely to outweigh the harm to the Green Belt and other harm to constitute the “very special circumstances” justifying inappropriate development on a site within the Green Belt".

"Local authorities should prepare a Strategic Housing Market Assessment to assess their full housing needs. However, assessing need is just the first stage in developing a Local Plan. Once need has been assessed, the local planning authority should prepare a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment to establish realistic assumptions about the availability, suitability and the likely economic viability of land to meet the identified need for housing over the plan period, and in so doing take account of any constraints such as Green Belt, which indicate that development should be restricted and which may restrain the ability of an authority to meet its need."

If the land ISN'T green belt but already has buildings on then there is a possibility that it could be classified as brownfield and then you really do have a problem as the new planning rules mean that developing brownfield is favoured.