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| Margaret Beckett MP Housing Minister Communities and Local Government Eland House Bressendon Place LONDON SW1E 5DU |
Housing Minister |
| Lawrence Robertson MP 22 High Street TEWKESBURY GL50 5AL |
Tewksbury (and Swindon Village) MP (Conservative) |
| Martin Horwood MP 16 Hewlett Road CHELTENHAM GL52 6AA |
Cheltenham MP (Lib Dem) |
| Parmjit Dhanda MP 1, Pullman Court Great Western Road GLOUCESTER GL1 3ND |
Gloucester MP and Junior Minister (Labour) |
| Councillor Bernie Fisher Hyde End, Hyde Lane Swindon Village Cheltenham GL51 9QN |
Councillor Swindon Village |
| Councillor Paul Massey 20 Selwyn Road CHELTENHAM GL51 0LZ |
Councillor Swindon Village (Lib Dem) |
| Councillor Duncan Smith 16, Leckhampton Road CHELTENHAM GL53 0DH |
Leader of Council (Conservative) |
| Councillor Leslie Goodwin 10 Long Mynd Avenue CHELTENHAM GL51 3QN |
Councillor Prestbury (Leader PAB) |
| Councillor John Webster 14, Clarence Walk Chelsea Square St Georges Place CHELTENHAM GL50 3RG |
Councillor (Lib Dem) (Save The Countryside) |
| Councillor Phil Awford 3 Tirley Elm Cottages Gloucestershire GL19 4EU |
Country Councillor (Cons) for Elmstone Hardwicke |
| Councillor Suzanne Williams 34 Frank Brookes Road Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL51 0UW |
Country Councillor (Lib Dem) for Springbank, Cheltenham |
10 October, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I agree with all the comments made. But I would like to remind people that flooding seems to be based on ‘100 year event’. However, flooding did occur in this area as far up as Stoke Orchard and beyond in 1968, which makes at least 2 happenongs in 40 years.
10 October, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Point well made – the qualifications for a ‘once in a hundred years’ event definitely need to be revisited. Sadly all Parmjit Dhanda’s and Laurence Robertson’s attempts to make the minister see sense on this in the debate in parliament this week seem to have fallen on deaf ears. See this article http://tinyurl.com/4upqgx
10 November, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Apologies if this is old and familiar news, but I stumbled across this document while searching for information about Dog Bark Lane:
http://www.southwesteip.co.uk/downloads/documents/20070516193126.pdf
entitled “Area of search – North West Cheltenham – a sustainable urban extension strategic overview”, dated 2007 and associated with Bloor Homes and Persimmon.
There are all sorts of upbeat and postive comments on issues such as how the traffic from the development can be wished away by dispersing it along local roads and on the perceived suitability of the area in terms of its relative location and therefore lack of visability from, for example, the Cotswolds AONB, but nothing in terms of its unsuitability in terms of increased flood risk downstream in Tewkesbury. The authors refer to the need for a “a Flood Consequence Assessment” to be carried out, but this seems to be in the context of local flooding with no mention made of the much bigger picture of increased run-off and the local river system. Perhaps the Housing Minister will go down in history as the woman that flooded Tewkesbury Abbey.
Final thought – I wish developers would stop using “sustainable” when they have no idea what it means!
20 November, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Thanks for this – its a useful document and I will bring it to the attention of the group. I think you are right that the flooding risk issue remains our strongest defence and any hard-based factual evidence we can gather in support we can get to support this is going to be vital to the campaign.
27 November, 2008 at 2:03 pm
It is certainly the case that drainage/flooding is an important issue, but there are also merits in arguing the wildlife case. However, there is major problem here insofar as Tewkesbury Borough Council does not have an agreement with the Gloucestershire Centre for Environmental Records (GCER) to use the centre’s comprehensive database of species records with which to assess development plans. Given that a large part of the site under examination lies in the TBC area, one of the planning authorities will enter the fray with a hand tied behind its back. Perhaps TBC residents in the area at risk could take up this serious omission with their borough councillor(s)?