Planning Schedule Date: 10/08/2004 - Stroud District Council

Planning Schedule Date: 10/08/2004
Natural Beauty. Several dwellings are visible within the area of land fronting Nympsfield Road
and a Bed and Breakfast establishment is also located on this frontage and backs onto the site.
This part of the town is elevated in relation to the main core of the town where most commercial
activities take place. The area is served by a variety of modes of transport and bus stops are
visible in the locality.
The site where the existing football pitch is located is relatively flat but the land falls away to the
south of the site towards the Newmarket Valley and rises to the west in the direction of
Nympsfield.
The other part of the application site lies adjacent to the King George V playing field and is
marked by a hedgerow and trees. It is proposed to construct a new football pitch to make up for
the lost pitch at Nortonwood. The area of land will gain access via the existing entrance to the
playing field which in turn links to Park Road. The land would be the subject of a cut and fill
operation to construct the new football pitch but there will still be a fall from the top to the bottom
of the new pitch.
This area of land is within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty but has been the
subject of agricultural reclamation works in the recent past. The works have involved the
movement of deposits to the site. The King George V playing field is a protected outdoor play
space in terms of its allocation in the Local Plan as is the school playing field.
CONSULTATIONS
Most consultations and responses are detailed elsewhere in this report but due to the detailed
response from the Town Council it has proved necessary to outline the Town Council's response
below:
'This sets out the response of Nailsworth Town Council to the above planning applications, the
accompanying Environmental Assessment, Transport Assessment, and consultation
correspondence.
The letter first states the Town Council's general support for the applications, then makes
comments about the appraisal, and finally sets out various items which the Town Council wishes
to see included as conditions or in the Section 106 agreements with the applications.
1. Support for the Applications
For many years the Town Council has striven to improve facilities at Forest Green, and to retain
Forest Green Rovers Football Club in the area because of the enormous community benefit that
the club provides. The proposal to relocate the football club to a new site on the surplus playing
fields at Nailsworth Primary School arises directly from the work of Forest Green Regeneration
Group, which was set up in September 2002 to promote regeneration of Forest Green.
The Regeneration Group is an informal working group taken forward by the Town Council, and
attended by representatives from the County Council, District Council, Nailsworth Primary
School, Forest Green Rovers Football Club, community groups and youth workers in and around
Nailsworth. The group has met regularly in order to find a way to enable the football club to
meet national requirements for ground upgrading whilst remaining in Forest Green, to support the
development of facilities at Nailsworth Joint Use Centre based at the primary school, and to
ensure the development of other community facilities that cannot be provided at either the
football club or the school.
The Town Council has spearheaded an extensive process of community consultation on the
proposals, with public meetings in December 2002 and October 2003, coverage on local radio
and frequent articles in the local press, and consultation meetings with many local organisations.
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