OUT/22/00942 – Land East Of Thorncroft Drive, North Of Gills Lane, Pensby

(15 Dwellings)

To object to this proposal please do the following:

Please send your email objections to:

planningapplications@wirral.gov.uk

Don’t forget to include your name and address in the email.

The objections to use for this site are:

• The Application(s) conflict with the Council’s Regulation 19 Submission Draft Local Plan ‘Spatial Strategy’ which excludes (as being unnecessary) any release or development of Green Belt.

• The Application(s) conflict with the Framework (NPPF) and Government directives NOT to release ANY Green Belt for development until ‘brownfield’ and ‘Previously Developed Land’ opportunities are exhausted. Wirral has a nationally-significant extent and excess of suitable ‘brownfield’ sites.

• New Housing within Green Belt is deemed ‘inappropriate’ development unless there are ‘Exceptional Circumstances’ or Very Special Circumstances’ which exhaustive studies have shown do NOT to apply to any of these Applications.

• Proposals conflict with 4 of the 5 ‘Purposes of Green Belt (to check Sprawl; prevent Merging communities; stop countryside Encroachment; and assist Urban Regeneration) and with special reasons why Wirral’s Green Belt boundaries remain tightly drawn around existing urban areas.

• Proposals would both individually and cumulatively conflict with the requirement to protect both the Permanence of Green Belt Boundaries once drawn and the ‘Openness’ of it.

• Proposals would both individually and cumulatively conflict with both National and Wirral Policies regarding mitigation of Climate Change. There is no way that the Harm done to Ecology, Air Quality, Watercourses and countryside by developing farmland for new Housing can be fully mitigated let alone provide the mandated ‘Biodiversity Net Gain’, even by tree-planting within already ‘green’ areas. Landowners should be doing their bit as part of good Land Management.

• Proposals would individually and cumulatively conflict with National and Wirral Policies regarding the protection and improvement of ‘Productive Farmland’ in order to ensure future ‘Food Security’.

• The Leverhulme Estates Vision’ misrepresents Wirral’s Housing Need’; also, what their Proposals would provide, adverse Effects and even Lord Leverhulme’s Legacy. His factories needed healthy workers at hand and so he built houses next to his Works, following the earlier example of improved worker productivity from decent housing by Thomas Brassey, Lord Cadbury and others. The main point is that ‘Employment’ drives the need for Housing, NOT housing for profit’s sake.

• Proposal would MERGE the separate and distinct communities of Pensby, Heswall and Barnston, contrary to the Framework (NPPF) and destroy the ‘open’ character of the area.

• Proposal would close the important Green and Wildlife Corridor across Gills Lane.

• Proposal would result is an artificially bright and noisy zone replacing existing ‘dark’ and ‘quiet’ farmland, and the pollution of Prenton Brook by additional surge run-off contaminated with garden chemicals – wildlife and character are ‘at risk’.

• Another catastrophic leak of the Cross Hill Reservoir could damage the new houses – insurance could be difficult.

• Proposed roadway changes would do little to mitigate but could increase the traffic dangers that already exist.

If you would rather send a letter you can use the template Objection-00942, please ensure you add your name and address.  Postal objections should be addressed to: Wirral Council Planning, PO Box 290, Brighton Street, Wallasey, Wirral CH27 9FQ and must inlcude the planning reference number.