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SALFORD BATTLE WITH PEEL HOLDINGS BEGINS AGAIN
 

Star date: 18th July 2017

PEEL PROPOSES 165 HOUSES IN WORSLEY GREENWAY – AS PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO BROADOAK PREPARES TO COMMENCE

Salford's battle with Peel Holdings kicks off again this week when the company's planning application to build 165 houses at Broadoak South, in the Worsley Greenway, gets considered by councillors – with a recommendation to refuse permission.

Anticipating this, Peel has tried to include an appeal for the 165 houses within a Public Inquiry into its whole Broadoak scheme which starts on 3rd October.

Full details here...


Peel Holdings is at it again 'concreting a green field near you', as the Residents Against Inappropriate Developments (RAID) poster states.

This week, Salford City Council's planning panel is due to consider an application from Peel, or Peel Investments (North) Ltd, for permission to build 165 houses off Worsley Road, in what it calls Broadoak South.

The development would be smack in the middle of the protected Worsley Greenway, on land that the Council is proposing to officially designate as Green Belt and as Local Green Space.

Council planning officers are recommending that the application is refused as it "would fundamentally fragment and detract from the openness and continuity of the Greenway, contrary to UDP Policy EN2"; would "result in significant harm in environmental terms" and "unacceptable harm to its character and its value as an amenity and open recreation resource".

The development would also result in the need for another 47 primary school places which don't exist. To mitigate this, Peel has proposed giving land to Salford Council for a new school, together with a mere 'financial contribution' to help build it. The school, of course, would also be sited within the Greenway, in Broadoak North.

The application has been met, once again, with huge opposition – 150 residents' letters, a petition, objections from residents groups RAID, Boothstown Residents Association and Moorside South Residents Association; from local councillors and from Barbara Keeley MP, who states that "Development of this scale could change the character of Worsley forever..."

Objections range from environmental issues, to traffic congestion, to the removal of mature, protected trees, to pollution, potential flooding and a lack of consultation – only 65 households received information on the plans.

Planning councillors look set to refuse permission for the Peel plan and, already anticipating the result, the Salford Star understands that the company has sought to include the 165 houses and the school within a Public Inquiry into its last scheme for Broadoak, which is due to begin on 3rd October.

...Back in 2013, Peel Holdings had planning permission refused for six hundred houses and a marina it wanted to plonk in the middle of the Greenway (see previous Salford Star article – click here).

Peel appealed and lost at a Public Inquiry the following year, which Eric Pickles, the then Secretary of State backed...

"The Secretary of State agreed with the Inspector's view that the intensity of the development, together with its proposed layout, would unnecessarily fragment the Worsley Greenway and totally destroy its character and continuity" a Salford Council report states

"He also concluded, in agreement with the Inspector, that there would be fundamental harm to the Greenway's openness and to its value as an amenity, recreation resource and wildlife corridor..." it adds.

Having lost, Peel applied for a judicial review and the Secretary of State's decision was subsequently quashed. Now there's a new Public Inquiry in October...and the battle with Peel Holdings begins all over again...

Mrs M Mollison wrote
at 08:44:17 on 01 August 2017
There are so many reasons to refuse building permission to Peel holdings , air polution , due to the hundred or more extra cars , traffic problems on a road close to schools , the reduction of wild life areas , flood protection to name some of the them. It seems that although there are many open areas in less populated areas Peel are only interested in profit .Maybe the hundreds of children who live in the area should be protectected. Worsley should be allowed to have a break from continual upheaval , motorway reconstruction included .
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David Ward wrote
at 14:00:55 on 18 July 2017
http://liverpoolpreservationtrust.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/unesco-liverpool-get-hammered-for-world.html You think you have problems Liverpool is on the World Heritage In Danger list due to the Liverpeel proposed development. Liverpool To Lose UNESCO World Heritage Site Status In 2018. Its Official. In view of the above analysis, it is recommended that the Committee expresses its deep concern that the projects already approved as well as those approved in outline have actual and potential highly adverse and irreversible impacts on the OUV of the property. Therefore, it is also recommended that the Committee retain the property on the List of World Heritage in Danger but consider its deletion from the World Heritage List at its 42nd session in 2018, if the State Party does not reverse course and stop the granting of planning permissions which have a negative impact on the OUV of the property, provide substantive commitments to limitation on the quantity, location and size of allowable built form, link the strategic city development vision to a regulatory planning document, and lastly provide a DSOCR and corrective measures that could be considered for adoption by the Committee. Read it yourself here. http://whc.unesco.org/en/soc/3519
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