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1.5 Publicity:
1.5.1 Immediate neighbours were consulted by letter, 7 site notices were
posted around the site and an advertisement was placed in the local
newspaper. At the time of the collation of this report a total of 58
properties had submitted letters as a result of the two consultations
undertaken on this application.
1.5.2 In addition a letter of objection has been received from Connaught (the
promoters of the Hodgson Lane allocation) via their Agents Indigo
Planning.
1.5.3 Residents have made comments under this application in relation to
the proposals by the owners of the adjacent land off Carousel
Walk/Fairfield Link which is not part of this application. These
comments have not been noted in the following summary as they are
not relevant to the consideration of this application.
1.5.4 The content of the objections received are summarised as follows:
Principle of Development, Need for Housing and Timescales
- Sherburn has had a large amount of development in every nook
and cranny.
- Insufficient infrastructure to cope with the population in Sherburn
- Additional population will overwhelm the health services in the
village.
- Voluntary services are struggling to cope with demand.
- Development proposed on Greenfield land, we have already lost so
much of our fields already.
- Services at Sherburn have not changed for the last 20 years.
- Resubmitted application does not overcome the problems outlined
on the previous application.
- Appear to want to fill up the fields with houses sufficient to fill the
forecast need for the whole area up until 2026
- Why should Sherburn provide housing need for the whole of the
Selby District Council area?
- There is no panic to build these houses, there is no real
demonstrable need other than the developers need to create an
income stream in a very difficult market and what could be a few
speculators / landowners trying to increase land values by gaining
permission to build on them, before selling them on.
- Large number of houses for sale with a variety of prices that are not
selling.
- 2000 more homes in Sherburn increases the population by 30%
- If the country has a chronic housing shortage, why not take the
initiative of people such as Titus Salt and build new towns from
scratch rather than always taking the cheapest option of tagging
unwanted houses onto existing communities, which do not benefit
anybody except the developers and the farmers.
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