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NAG News Archive 2020
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GBC has started work on the second part of the Local Plan; the ‘Local Plan: Development Management Policies’ document. The Council states that this “will provide further and more detailed planning policies to use when we determine planning applications. This Regulation 18 consultation is the first opportunity to comment on the plan as it moves through the various stages of its production. The document identifies a series of key issues for the borough and the policy options that could help address them.
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At the national level, government has made clear its intention to reform and simplify the planning system. No doubt every government has this aspiration but we should take it seriously and watch closely for changes that might have a negative impact on semi-rural areas such as ours.
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Less positively, the smaller field of Wanborough Fields to the right before the bend in Westwood Lane continues to be blighted by the various structures that were erected not long after the plots were sold and whose owners have been directed to take them down.
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Notwithstanding the failure of the various attempts to have the Local Plan subjected to Judicial Review, the Save the Hog’s Back Group has written to all Councillors asking them to review the Plan in the light of the absence of any proposals for A3 widening in the Government’s Road Investment Strategy, which was published in March.
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Planning application 19/P/00167, which was an outline application to consider access for change of use and creation of up to a total of eleven dwelling houses at Wanborough Business Centre, having been refused by GBC, subsequently went to Appeal [APP/Y3615/W/19/3240419]. The Planning Inspectorate dismissed the Appeal on the grounds that would be “inappropriate development in the Green Belt”.