Wrexham Council building on Greenbelt and School Fields
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I was wondering if you all had seen Wrexham’s Local development plan? It includes them building on school fields, significantly expanding villages and eating huge chunks of greenfield and greenbelt sites, yet this has had little coverage…
https://wrexhamldp.wrexham.gov.uk/portal/ldp/ps/ps2016?pointId=3783270
Proposal and comments here:
https://wrexhamldp.wrexham.gov.uk/portal/ldp/ps/ps2016?pointId=s1453367774401
If you want to see what this council are trying to push under the mat try clicking on the following link and then click on the consultation portal link.
https://www.wrexham.gov.uk/english/planning_portal/plan_policy/local_development_plan_new.htm
Loads of mistakes and lots of devious areas that planning is trying to add. In Llay there is a major plot of land that the owners did not know had been included and were never consulted and are now worried about compulsory purchase being made.
The portal is not user friendly but just look up were you live and then check your blood pressure as you will be shocked.Thank you – Their portal is horrible to use isn’t it?
The questions that spring to mind are:
– How have they come up with that number of houses to build? Is it based on speculation, facts, a model of some sort or an external target?
– How are they working out the supply/demand of the area? And which side do they want Wrexham to be on – lots of houses being sold cheaply because there is too much supply?
– How are they able to reclassify greenbelt land that is supposed to protect the town and its surrounding villages? Surely this defeats the point of it all together? How do we then constrain urban spread?
– Why isn’t more emphasis being put on regeneration of ‘deprived’ areas to increase the quality of life?
– Why isn’t their more focus on brownfield and disused sites across the county to re-purpose and reuse?
– How can they justify building on school playing fields, team pitches, and recreational areas when they claim to be trying to tackle obesity and levels of health?
– Surely building all these houses before improving transport links is working the wrong way around?
– What are the processes and procedures to oppose this plan?This is just a development plan. If approved, the council won’t be building anything itself, but private landowners out there would suddenly find themselves owning land where houses are more likely to be allowed to be built, and may therefore want to sell that land to developers. Such things would still go through their own planning applications though.
When it comes to brownfield sites a lot of them are owned by private landowners too – and they’d rather sit on the land until it can be sold at a healthy profit – usually with retail and/or flats.
This is the link people should look at though. It seems to be adding Lower Berse Farm and the area around Bryn Estyn as “strategic sites” for development.
We have ambulances queueing outside A & E, 3 or more weeks for a none urgent appointment with a GP, schools in special measures & many full to capacity, supermarkets on every street corner, services cut. Which will come first? The cart or the horse?
Don’t worry, they have already announced improvements to the transport infrastructure – the widening of the bypass to three lanes, the electrification of the railways to the north and south…oh no, it was some 20mph zones and a few new signs – ah well.
Two things that need to be mentioned are:-
the more houses built within this borough the more council tax that has to be paid to this council and
the more money the chief executive can get (increase in population)
Any problems with the existing infrastructure and services trying to cope I would think has only slightly crossed the minds of Wrexham council because at the end of the day MONEY TALKS.Apart from anything else where is the industry? Where are the inhabitants of these new properties going to work? Wrexham, the largest? town in North Wales hasn’t even got a direct rail link to the capital city.
An excellent summary of the sheer stupidity of this current regime, which appears to have no idea of analysing the proposal and the problems that it will pose to existing residents and the future of Wrexham.
How much and how many of their decisions are being made by un-elected officers, with either no previous experience or just passing through, moving on to other positions after gaining experience in Wrexham? People who have no real ‘heart’ in the area.
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