A decision on the planned Hook Street development has been announced giving developers permission to build 73 houses on the land on Hook Street close to the Lydiard Park boundary. The Inspector's main reason for allowing the appeal was the Council's lack of a 5 year housing land supply.
A decision on the planned Hook Street development has been announced giving developers permission to build 73 houses on the land on Hook Street close to the Lydiard Park boundary. The Inspector's main reason for allowing the appeal was the Council's lack of a 5 year housing land supply.
Cindy Matthews, Councillor for Lydiard & Freshbrook, was the only local ward councillor who attended and spoke at the planning hearing. She pointed out that the Conservative Council had dragged its feet over getting the local plan finalized, and without it land such as Hook Street was very vulnerable to speculative development proposals such as this one. The problem is that the government's new planning framwork has a presumption in favour of development, which was not previously the case.
Cindy commented that it was all very well for Robert Buckland to come to the Planning Hearing to speak against the development but that both our local MPs had voted for this change in legislation in the first place.