Major development to rear of Sheffield Road.

[BW]

Dont know how many of you are aware of the new development to the rear of Sheffield Road. The permission is for 24 houses initaily with plans for a further 24 or so once access has been gained .

Access will be down Meadowgate Park, a small cul de sac with 15 properties. To support a further 50 homes would be inpractical.

The council are being their usual secretive selves, failing to even post a planning notice until prompted by some vigilant residents of Sheffield Road.

There is a petition to stop these builders, who incidently are from Birmingham. And I believe there is a residents meeting on Friday night, nobody is quite sure where though as it seems only the few are privvy to the information.

Ill keep you posted on any news as it appears but it looks like yet another piece of formally green belt land will be built on!

I wonder how much it costs to get land taken off green belt these days???

[mel]

wheres meadowgate park ? is it near the old fishing tackle shop at the bottom of the hill? or am i completely wrong?

i wasn't aware there was ever any green belt land in killamarsh, i thought it was all brown field sites? ex mining ground. where is the green belt land?

i'm surprised about them building more houses in this climate although i'm sure they'll be a lot of people grateful for the work.

has anyone heard any more about the proposed build near the school? or has that been called off?

[ellgee]

full details of the planning application are on the Council's planning website, here:

http://planapps-online.ne-derbyshire.go ... &module=P3

looks like it hasn't been approved yet.

The current use of land is described as "untended scrub land" and looking on google maps, it the land between the bottom of the gardens of the houses on Sheffield Road, and Nethermoor Lake in Rothervalley.

[mel]

i'd of thought that land would flood , wouldn't you? i certainly wouldn't buy a house there.

[BW]

Its flooded today, and the plans state that there is no water course on site, despite the beck that runs along the back of the main flood bank,(Killamarsh side) behind the gardens on Sheffield rd and back into the flood drain behind juniors,it then feeds back into the Rother.
The plans indicate that they will build on this watercourse, which could find another route around,possibly eroding the main flood defence banking, or back up and flood the land further upstream.(Nethergreen)
The other concern is this marsh is kind of a soakaway for excess water, if they build onto it and culvert the water coarse, there would be more water either feeding back into the Rother via the dych at the back of the juniors, or it could flood the gardens and cellars of the houses on Sheffield road from the proposed development to the Juniors.
In the floods of 2007 there were several pumps at the bottom of the gardens on Meadowgate park to relieve this beck as it was backing up and flooding the workshops etc at the rear of Sheffield rd

ttp://planapps-online.ne-derbyshire.gov ... ype=WEEKLY

http://plandocs-online.ne-derbyshire.go ... ageCount=1

[BW]

There is apparently a meeting in the leisure centre hall on Tuesday 9th march at 6.30. Amongst the agenda will be the Sheffield Rd/ Meadowgate Park development.

[Francis]

Is this the same meeting? On the Derbyshire Police website

Community Partnership Meeting
When: 9 March 2010, 18:30 to 20:30
Where: Parish Suite, Killamarsh Sports Centre, Stanley Street
Contact: Killamarsh Safer Neighbourhood Team - 0345 123 33 33

[willman]

I dont suppose they intend on improving the infrastructure to accomodate these and the 300 new homes they allegedly need every year. Infrastructure includes parking for 3 cars per home not 1 and then let them clutter the streets with the rest.

[BW]

No traffic infrastructure improvements will be made, the landowner is capitalising on the fact that Meadowgate Park now provides an access road to the land in question.
I queried the access plans at the meeting, but conveniently Meadowgate park is JUST wide enough to be accepted as an access road. (allthough fire engines would struggle now)
The main objection though is on the grounds of flooding, and it appears the application has been rejected at this stage until the builders can provide details of the height of the proposed development, and the environment agency can carry out a flood study.
This does not stop them from reapplying using modified plans etc.
There has been a large number of representation letters sent to the NEDDC planning dept objecting to the development, and if they do re-apply we need to keep sending the letters or permission may slip through.
There will be a planning commitee meeting soon, ill post details up when they become available.