planning application will be decided at the
Planning-Committee meeting on 16 August 2018, at 4.30 pm at West Offices,
Station Rise, York. The recommendation for this application will be
"Refuse".
Developers attempting to obtain planning permission for a NEW 'farm' on a York green belt site (where no previous farm existed), have amended their application after two long years and reduced the number of sheds applied for.
CPRENorthYorkshire have actively campaigned to stop this questionable development within the green belt and regardless of the number of poultry sheds applied for, continue to campaign against it.
Why - it's the York Green Belt and development should be in exceptional circumstances.
More importantly, once planning permission for three sheds has been obtained, the principle of development on this site will have been established and developers will simply come back later and increase the size and scale of the development bit by bit.
This method of obtaining planning permission is happening all over the country, it happened yesterday and WILL HAPPEN tomorrow - establish the principle of development being acceptable initially and then keep at it until you get what you want.
In Hellifield near Skipton, a railway heritage centre was approved in the 90's and, for the last twenty plus years, determined developers have come back again and again, now the area is faced with an application for parking for 600+ cars, two cinemas, swimming pool, hotel and 300+ lodge homes on that site AND THE LAND AROUND THE ORIGINAL SITE,
We need to build what people need not what a handful of developers want. We need affordable homes. There is a recognised shortage.
BUT WE GET EXECUTIVE HOMES.
The revised NPPF is a speculative developer's charter and will lead to the death of the plan led system - it does not focus on delivering what we need.
We have enough issues with brilliant legal brains arguing the existing system because of the flaws within, now it is worse. This poultry farm application (running for years) presents the same threat to land as the Hellifield "Leisure" Park application (running for decades).
Common sense and fair play? We suggest there needs to be a focus on bringing common sense and fair play into this broken planning system.
