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BBC News
2 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Pump track plan for Rotherham recommended for approval
Plans to build a pump track in Rotherham have been recommended for on greenbelt land off Magna Lane in Dalton, the facility would be open to bikes, scooters, skateboards and rollerblades and would cater for all Council planning officers said the scheme would meet national and local planning policy and would represent "not inappropriate" development within the green plans have attracted more than a dozen public comments, with roughly half in support of the facility. A planning statement submitted to the council said the track would help improve health, support inclusive activity and enhance the existing green space without harming its character or council's ecologist agreed and said there would be a biodiversity net gain of more than 10% on track would cover 0.6 hectares of land and sit at least 32ft (10m) from all boundaries and 65ft (20m) from Dalton Brook, according to the Local Democracy Reporting the 17 public comments received, supporters said it would provide a much-needed facility for young people and encourage physical activity in a safe, purpose-built setting. However, others raised concerns about traffic, noise, and the potential for anti-social behaviour, particularly potential misuse of the track by off-road motorbikes. Residents also cited Magna Lane's existing road safety issues, with one objector pointing to a past fatality plans will now go before the authority's planning board for a final decision on 3 July. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North
BBC News
2 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Council spent £240k opposing Holyport studios project
A council that was opposed to a major film studios being built on green belt land spent £240,000 successfully fighting against plan for the complex in Holyport, Berkshire, was proposed by investment company Greystoke Land but Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) councillors rejected it in March minister Matthew Pennycook upheld the authority's decision to refuse permission earlier this deputy head of planning Louise Reid celebrated the decision and said it was a good outcome for the authority's officers. She said Mr Pennycook's decision was the first appeal the current Labour government had dismissed after deciding it would take the decision itself rather than leaving it to a planning inspector."That's a bit of a feather in our cap that we've actually got a dismissed appeal – so good outcome," she plan included sound stages, workshops, offices, footpaths, a multi-storey car park, a filming area, a new roundabout and a "media village" for post-production Greystoke Land's application, the government agreed with the council that the company had not searched widely enough for "reasonably alternative sites".The cost of opposing the studios plan was less than the £260,000 RBWM spent on defending its decision to refuse the Spencer's Farm housing development, which it lost last year. You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
BBC News
4 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Doncaster: Homes on former greenbelt recommended for approval
Plans for 186 new homes on former greenbelt land in South Yorkshire have been recommended for approval. The homes would be built off Averley Lane in Balby, with the land removed from the greenbelt four years ago when City of Doncaster Council agreed its local development is set to have 43 properties marked as "affordable homes", with the 143 others "market housing", the Local Democracy Reporting Service said. A report said the site is "allocated for housing within the Doncaster local plan and is therefore acceptable in principle". The plan received 72 third party objections, two neutral representations and one in recommended the council's planning committee to grant planning permission, subject to a number of developer should be required to pay for bus service improvements totalling more than £100,000, the report said, along with £50,000 towards a scheme for greenbelt compensatory local authority will discuss the application on 1 July. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North
BBC News
6 days ago
- Business
- BBC News
Plan for 'incongruous' Eldwick greenbelt homes rejected
Plans to build homes on a greenbelt site have been refused after the proposed properties were described as "imposing and incongruous".The application for five homes in Eldwick, near Bingley, was turned down by Bradford Council, whose planners said it was "inappropriate".The Squire's Farm development near Moorland Grange Farm, off Otley Road, would have provided much-needed "multigenerational" homes, according to property firm rejecting the proposals, planning officers said the buildings would "take up a large portion of the site which would harm the landscape character and visual amenity of the site itself". Plans were submitted by Acrehowe in March and received 18 objections, many of which raised concerns about building homes on the greenbelt site – part of a small hamlet of properties surrounding Eldwick stated in its application that there were already farm buildings on the site, and those could be converted to housing or accommodation without the need for planning permission, through the "permitted development" route, according to the Local Democracy Reporting the preferred option was for the five large homes that made up the planning application, it added. 'No meaningful contribution' The application said: "While the alternatives are deliverable without planning permission, they will deliver a built form outcome that remains somewhat unappealing to the market."We consider that the provision of multigenerational homes will have a significant positive impact on the identified groups with protected characteristics, whereas a refusal will have a significant negative impact."Rejecting the application, council planning officers said the benefits of the five homes would not outweigh the loss of greenbelt said: "It is appreciated that economic and social benefits could be derived through the delivery of new homes."However, these benefits need to be balanced against the harm to the public interest that would be caused by loss of openness and conflict with the purposes of the greenbelt."In terms of the contribution of the site to the district housing land supply the proposed development of five dwellings, without the provision of any affordable housing, would not form any meaningful contribution to the district such that it might constitute a very special circumstance."The proposed buildings would create "a large, imposing and incongruous development taking up a large portion of the site which would harm the landscape character and visual amenity of the site itself", planners added. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
20-06-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Bromsgrove residents to be consulted on green belt homes plan
People living in a rural part of the West Midlands are to be invited to take part in a consultation on plans to build thousands of new homes in the District Council voted on Thursday evening to send its Draft Development Strategy, which details plans for 9,000 homes by 2043, out to public authority has to increase its housing provision and create the associated infrastructure in order to meet government consultation will open on 30 June and run for 12 weeks. With about 90% of Bromsgrove designated green belt land, the plans have proved a third of the homes would be built in Frankley, another 2,500 in the town of Bromsgrove itself, and more than 1,200 in hundred would also be built in Alvechurch, Barnt Green, Catshill, Hagley and Stoke Prior. "This consultation is to check the long-term strategy is on the right track," said Kit Taylor, the council's cabinet member for planning."As part of our duty to plan for these government-imposed future housebuilding targets, we are ensuring residents have this early and specially extended 12-week chance to say what they think the planning issues are, in an open and transparent way."Opposition councillors on the Conservative-Independent-run authority had suggested residents should have been presented with a range of potential approaches to the building programme."This is the first sketch of what a plan could look like, drafted from the [more than] 400 sites for building suggested by developers," Taylor said."It's the start of a plan to keep our destiny in our own hands and in ways that we would want - not decided by developers and central government officials." Residents will be able to take part in the consultation on the Bromsgrove District Local Plan's website from next council said in-person events across the district would be announced in the near future. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
