Happy New Year to you all from Paul and Deborah.
Cost of Living
We understand residents are concerned about the rising cost of living.
Charnwood Borough Council have put together a webpage to provide information and useful links to a range of different agencies which may be able to help those needing further support.
Whether you’re worried about loan repayments and want to know where to get financial support or legal advice, want to know more about the support available for food provision or need information about housing, there is information there.
The UK Government has launched ‘Help for Households’ to provide a range of additional support and the link to that webpage is here: https://helpforhouseholds.campaign.gov.uk
Local Plan
Following the pause of the Local Plan Public Examination, Planning Inspectors will re-open the ‘Hearing Sessions’ at 9.30 am on Tuesday 7th February 2023 within the Victoria Room of Loughborough Town Hall, Market Place, Loughborough, LE11 3EB.
The Inspectors have produced an updated Guidance Note which explains the background to the resumed hearings and associated arrangements. An updated programme has also been produced for the resumed hearings.
Updated Matters, Issues and Questions detail the Issues and Questions to be explored during the resumed hearings have also been published. These include questions which were not considered during previous hearing sessions, together with any supplementary questions the Inspectors have posed following their consideration of Leicester and Leicestershire’s Unmet Housing and Employment Need (hearings October 2022).
The key dates are as follows: -
- 9th January 2023 - Representors to inform the Programme Officer of any Matter(s) they wish to participate in.
(Please note, representors will need to (re-)apply for participation. Due to both the passage of time and the consideration of Unmet Need it will not be assumed that participants originally listed for hearing discussions in the Summer of 2022 will still wish to appear at the resumed hearings. Representors will not be listed as participants unless new expressions of interest are submitted irrespective of whether you were due to appear previously)
- 16th January 2023 - Deadline for any supplementary written statements - please refer to the Guidance Note for information on the scope of any new submissions and the requested format
- 7th February 2023 - Hearing Sessions resume.
All the details can be found here: - https://www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/examination_latest_news
Planning Application
We have been informed by Charnwood Borough Council of another planning application submitted in Anstey.
A new planning application has been submitted to Charnwood Borough Council for up to 80 houses on land off Gorse Hill, Anstey. Both Paul and Deborah are against this proposed development and will be submitting their comments in the New Year.
Your councillors seek your support by submitting any comments and concerns to Charnwood Borough Council, focussing your comments on valid material planning considerations.
Examples are:
- Highway and Pedestrian Safety
- Traffic Capacity
- Extra Vehicles using Gorse Hill, The Nook, Anstey Lane, and Leicester Road travelling to and from the Proposed Development
- Impact on the Local Communities
- Impact on our already stretched Local Services
- Effect on Woodland, Trees, and Wildlife
- Impact on the Unique Character and Appearance of the Area
- Site Unsustainable, the car would be the main form of Transport
- Site outside Limits to Development
- Lack of parking space in the service centre
- Concerns over the number of new homes proposed and Anstey becoming over-developed and losing its village character
- Noise pollution from the A46.
There are currently now 1,088 new houses planned for Anstey sitting within eight planning applications. This is a huge number of houses for Anstey to cope with, with no identified infrastructure to support these new houses.
We continue to fight against this overdevelopment of Anstey.
Further details are available on our website, including information on how to submit your comments for this planning application. The link for our website is below or scan the QR code.
