It has been a year since the Public Consultation on Elmbridge Borough Council’s (EBC) new Local Plan, which closed on 24th February 2017. EBC received around 3800 responses (including 1299 from the Dittons).
More detail can be found on our Latest News Summary
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AGM
All residents are invited to our AGM which will be held at 8pm on the 9th November at St Mary’s Junior School. All our councillors will be present – residents will have an opportunity to ask them questions.
On Friday 18 August Surrey County Council advertised by way of a press notice in the Surrey Advertiser our parking proposals following parking reviews in:
There will then follow a five week period during which we will accept objections and comments on the proposals. SCC posted around 950 A5 postcards to all properties fronting the proposals..
Hard copies of the plans and our reasons for making the proposed changes will be available for public inspection from Friday at the following locations:
Of course all the relevant documents are also be available onSCC website via the following address:
www.surreycc.gov.uk/parking/elmbridge
The LDRA have objected to the St Mary’s Road proposals as we feel they would not address the parking problems in Effingham Road.
SCC will accept comments and objections using an online form on the website listed above (preferred), or in writing to:
Mr David Curl, Parking Team Manager, Hazel House, Merrow Lane, Guildford, GU4 7BQ
The closing date for comments is Friday 22 September.
Once this has passed, SCC will create a report which looks at all the comments received. The final decision about what to go ahead with is made by the Parking Team Manager in consultation with the chairman and vice-chairman of Surrey County Council’s local committee for Elmbridge and the relevant county councillor for the area concerned. SCC would expect to have the final decisions made before Christmas, and then look to get the new restrictions implemented before the end of this financial year, although the timescale will be dependant on the number and nature of comments received and how long it takes to resolve any objections.
Venue: St Mary’s Junior School, Sugden Road
Date: 18th May 2017
Time: 8.00pm
The Long Ditton Residents Association have formerly responded to Elmbridge Borough Council.
(Our response can VIEWED HERE)
LDRA Statement
Our main concern is that the Council has prematurely treated Green Belt as an ‘option’ for meeting long term development when Government policy is clear that Green Belt release should only even be considered after all other options have been exhausted.
The Council has undertaken a comprehensive review of the Green Belt in Elmbridge to inform the options currently being considered. Green Belt releases have been suggested as potential options for meeting the objectively assessed housing need (of 9,480 to 2035) as a result.
However, national policy (National Planning Policy Framework) makes it clear that this should only happen in ‘exceptional circumstances’ and after all other options have been explored through the local plan review process. The Housing White Paper (Feb 2017) confirms that there will be no change to national policy but proposes amendments to the NPPF (to be introduced later this year) to make it clear that:
“authorities should amend Green Belt boundaries only when they can demonstrate that they have examined fully all other reasonable options for meeting their identified development requirements, including:
* making effective use of suitable brownfield sites and the opportunities offered by estate regeneration;
* the potential offered by land which is currently underused, including surplus public sector land where appropriate;
* optimising the proposed density of development; and
* exploring whether other authorities can help to meet some of the identified development requirement.”
This process should be applied before coming to the conclusion that there are exceptional circumstances for releasing Green Belt. Options 2 and 3 of the Council’s consultation are therefore premature as other ‘reasonable’ options have not been fully explored. In order for the Council to even consider Green Belt, further ‘urban capacity’ work that goes beyond the Land Availability Assessment, is needed.
LDRA OFFICIAL
THE DEADLINE FOR RESPONDING TO THE ELMBRIDGE BOROUGH COUNCIL’S LOCAL PLAN IS
APPROACHING FAST!!
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON HOW TO RESPOND OR REPLY
OR VIST:
YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO RESPOND – RESPONSE CLOSES 24th FEBRUARY!!
Our Greenbelt (including Stokes Field) is under threat, with the Government’s housing shortage. There are new plans to build thousands of new homes on Long Ditton and Hinchley Wood Greenbelt.
These flyers will be posted through your door shortly (if you would like one to be emailed – please contact us here) – contact@longditton.org
IMPORTANT UPDATE FROM ELMBRIDGE BOROUGH COUNCIL!!
There will be a public exhibition on 19th January 2017 at Hinchley Wood school 7-9pm.
Also our Long Ditton councillors have arranged a public meeting on January 24th at 7.45pm at St Mary’s Junior school.
THIS HAS NOW CHANGED DUE TO LARGE NUMBERS ANTICIPATED IN ATTENDING AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT:
JANUARY 24th (AT 8.00PM)
The Council Chamber
Civic Centre
Esher High Street
KT10 9DS
Residents can find out more and have their say. The councils Planning Policy Manager will give a talk on the proposals – Elmbridge Local Plan – Greenbelt Review
FOR SAFETY REASONS ENTRY WILL BE ON A FIRST COME BASIS AND LIMITED TO BETWEEN 170 AND 200 PEOPLE , WITH THE FINAL NUMBER TO BE AGREED WITH THE COUNCIL’S HEALTH & SAFETY OFFICER. PRIORITY WILL BE GIVEN AS FAR AS POSSIBLE TO LONG DITTON RESIDENTS. THE PRESENTATION WILL BE WEBCAST ON www.elmbridge.public-i.tv/core/portal/home AND WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING SUBSEQUENTLY.
PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON TO ANY OTHER LONG DITTON RESIDENTS WHO YOU KNOW.
New proposals for the traffic calming measures for the roads surrounding both the Infant and St Mary’s School have now been submitted. There is a public consultation planned for February 2017.
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