Planning Comittee meeting, August 22

Aug 18, 2022

The Peasedown Parish Council planning committee met on Tuesday 2nd August. The Curo development was on the agenda.

This from the minutes:

Curo Development on Greenlands Road - several residents made comments on the
recent revised plans, as follows:

• Issues of providing adequate drainage for the site do not appear to have been addressed.
  
• There is no information on the elevation – is it still the plan to build an 18m retaining wall?
  
• The potential noise and disruption from movement of traffic whilst the building works are taking place. Can the flow of construction traffic be managed to keep the impact on local residents in Hillside View and Greenlands Road to a minimum?
  
• The possibility of the proposal changing again, and the need to reserve judgment until the full plans are available, then to see what can be done to further reduce the impact of any new development on our village, infrastructure and environment.
  
• Noting that B&NES is currently exceeding its housing supply and currently has sufficient for the next 5 years, so questioning whether the additional housing is required.

We felt that the mood of the meeting was that the councillors were not in favour of the scheme but they acknowleged that planning permission existed. They said that they would present Curo witth some questions, but also that there was no obligation for them to answer; and in fact Curo were not very forthcoming last time they did this.

It is worth noting that Curo will have to present their plan for 55 new homes as a completely new planning application to B&NES so there will be opportunity to oppose this when they do so later this year.

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