Blue Living Have Gone to Appeal
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Village Green Application Letter
If we win this
We block all further planning applications.
So if you care please make the effort.
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Please forward your letter to this address -
Mrs J. Lawrie
C/O Tilehurst Parish Council Offices
High View
Calcot
Reading.
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Hi folks : round 1 goes to us
Reading Chronicle ——> Click Here
Newbury weekly News —> Click Here
The "Save Calcot Action Group" along with many concerned locals attended the planning meeting today 24th feb 2010
To witness the whole council vote NO to development on
Pincents Hill.
Further more, Blueliving's rep' was reprimanded several times for making politicly biased accusations against the council. He was totally out of order, and was put in his place.
We are NOT home and dry yet, Blueliving will re-apply/appeal, so at some future date we will have to continue this fight. There will be a press report about this, it will be posted here, just as soon as it's released. So please return to this site/page. We thank you all for your support : Never give up : Think positive we CAN & WILL WIN
Please be aware Pincents Hill is not safe yet
The Planning Meeting to decide Blue Living’s Application is on February 24th at 6.30 pm : at Little Heath School main hall
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Contact the Group —> Joanjlawrie@aol.com
Alok Sharma's Campaign : Many links —> Click Here
Our Sister Site —> WWW.SAVEPINCENTSHILL.CO.UK
Watch Our Video —> http://www.blip.tv/file/1307975/
Pincents Hill Survey Results —> Click Here PDF file
Council calls off Dec' 16th meeting !
Pincents Hill showdown cancelled - click the link for the story
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- Village Green Petition -
Just click the link below to d/load and print your copy. Please ask your friends to support us - united we can win !
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No printer attached to your pc, no problem :
petitions can be found at the following :
C & G News, Royal Avenue Calcot
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Blue match box, Halls rd Tilehurst
http://www.bluematchbox.co.uk/
For further info' click HERE
Looking East
URGENT UPDATE 28th July 2009
BLUELIVING HAVE SUBMITTED THEIR APPLICATION FOR OUTLINEPLANNING
(as shown under)
To provide up to 750 dwellings, a healthcare centre, library and children library, business and communications forum, nursery/crèche, up to six shops, 40 - bed hotel with spa and gym facilities, up to two restaurants and cafes, one drinking establishment, primary school, open space and landscaping, three energy centres, new and improved accesses, parking for residents, staff and visitors, walking, fitness and jogging trails, ecology and wildlife corridors, up to four commercial offices, up to ten homeworking units. These uses are also referred to in the land use section of the masterplan.
Type of Application Outline App. Major (13 wks]
Case Officer: Clive Inwards
Public Meeting
at Little Heath School - Main Hall - 7:30pm - 1st September '09 Please make every effort to attend
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Everything below is now History !
For more info' click this link ->Click Here
Please don't miss this in the above link - A special Meeting of the Parish Council to discuss the plans is scheduled for 7.30pm, Monday 10 August at the Council office : High View Calcot (off Royal Avenue
We will be updating our website with information and instructions concerning public meetings and venues and what we can do to oppose this development. The Save Calcot and Save Pincents Hill Action Group members are currently updating the pro forma letter which for your ease can be downloaded from both the sites, or you can create your own letter and address it to the planning department address as shown.
Planning Applications Dep't
Council Offices
Market Street
Newbury
Berkhire
RG14 5LD
Village green plan to preserve Pincents Hill
Campaigners in Calcot have applied to turn Pincents Hill into a village green to thwart developers.
The Save Calcot Action Group (SCAG) has made the application to West Berkshire Council and the public can comment on the idea until Thursday, August 20.
The campaigners have made the move in a bid to prevent Blue Living carrying out its plan to build 750 to 1,000 houses on a former golf course behind Sainsbury’s in Calcot. Blue Living has held a series of public meetings to show off its plans and is expected to put in an application this month.
The site has also been identified as a potential development area in the West Berkshire Local Development Framework which is also out to consultation now.
Campaigners have acted with the support of West Berkshire councillor for Birch Copse, Joe Mooney, Jean Gardner, who chairs Tilehurst parish council, and Alok Sharma, the Reading West prospective Parliamentry Conservative candidate.
The SCAG website says: “This is very much a last-ditch attempt to prevent any development on the hill and the process is fraught with many pitfalls and obstacles, but it could work and we feel it is better to try and fail than not to try at all.
“If this application gets as far as an appeal then we will appeal to the public for letters confirm-ing that people have used this hill for leisure purposes for a period of over 20 years. We may not even get to that stage but we can but hope.”
Birch Copse councillor Tony Linden said: “If Pincents Hill were to gain village green status, then no-one would be able to build on it.”
He said the three Birch Copse councillors had supported the application and objected to West Berkshire Council’s local development framework proposals suggesting Pincents Hill as one of the options for new homes.
SCAG has been battling against the development – with the support of local politicians of all parties including Reading West MP Martin Salter – since the first public meeting in September 2008 when the proposals to develop 37-acre former Pincents Manor Golf Course were announced by Blue Living, which owns the land and has an option on 11 neighbouring acres.
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Please Click Here PDF file
Message from the Save Calcot Group
West Berks LDF: Letter Against Development
West Berkshire Council has suggested that Pincents Hill and part of the North Wessex Downs (the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) adjoining, is one of the sites that could be used for development. Please don’t let this happen. Underneath this statement is a letter that could be used to protest against this suggestion. If you could add your own words in the box this gives the pre-formatted letter more value, or please write you own. We need your help to stop this becoming one big building site. These letters need to be received by West Berkshire District Council no later than 3rd July 2009.
Please help us ….. Thank you.
Click the link below to d/load letter
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