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Yes, give Natural England more funding and NO, don't move rural affairs from Defra to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
House of Lords Committee’s scrutiny of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (NERC Act).
Application for outline permission at Stokesley does not meet 'exceptional criteria' ....
CPRENY have recently comment on an outline planning applicationon on land south of Bridge House Station, outside of Stokesley in the Hambleton area of North Yorkshire.
We had no alternative but to object to this application because quite simply it is not in conformity with local and national planning policies and guidance. We object to the principle of development on this site within the open countryside and highlight the fact the the site is nos not a preferred site as part of the council's evidence base for their emerging new Local Plan nor was this site allocatied as part of the current local plan......
ROWDEN LANE HARROGATE ....REFUSED BY HBC PLANNERS
Harrogate Planners have notified CPRENorth Yorkshire that the application to build 80 dwellings has been refused.
The reasons are below, CPRE North Yorkshire worked with Hampsthwaite Action group to object to the development in this beleaguered village
and another application to reduce the affordable homes quota....
When will someone join up the dots and recognise this trend
Apply for planning permission, promise to build a solid quota of affordable homes then apply to half the number of the homes we really need?
Harrogate Local Plan
CPRENY are finishing off their work on the Harrogate Local Plan Regulation consultation ready for submission tomorrow.
North Stanley, Harrogate - Scoping Opinion
CPRENY beleive that this site should be subject to an EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) and that the applicant should present the local authority with an appropriate Environmental Statement.
A P P L I C A T I O N W I T H D R A W N 29 MARCH 2018
Fracking at Kirby Misperton - latest
Third Energy pulling out equipment....
CPRENY in the Yorkshire post again...Hampsthwaite
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/young-people-being-priced-out-of-rural-homes-in-yorkshire-claim-campaigners-1-9019672
Sadly this application was later approved following the committee meeting.
