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  1. Published on: 16/10/2018 06:58 AMReported by: rogerblaxall
    Colin Atkinson, Chair of the Aughton Residents Group (2012), has said the group feels it's been 'misled and betrayed' after the Borough Council announced it's looking at a new local Plan stretching to 2050.

    ARG's still finding it hard to come to terms with the fact that while they were celebrating the Borough Council's successful rebuttal of developers’ attempts to usurp the current Local Plan, it has now become clear that behind the closed doors key politicians and Senior Planning Officers were colluding to deliver housing developers a bonanza beyond their wildest expectations...

    Throughout the last few years, developers have tried to get around the Local Plan and build houses on the agricultural land to the north of Parrs Lane, Aughton.

    Local residents were delighted when the Council decided to fight these unwarranted challenges, and a great deal of time, effort, resources and yes, money was spent fighting the developers through appeals, Planning Inspectors’ Hearings and even in the Civil Courts.

    ARG supported the council at each of these stages; finally on 22 March 2018, following the latest hearing, the Planning Inspectorate found in favour of WLBC and dismissed the two Developers’ appeals to build c 400 homes. With the Council fending off these two ‘rogue’ appeals, the residents were led to believe that this ‘best and most versatile’ farm land was safe from further attempts at development for at least another 5 -10 years.

    What residents did not know was that at the same time the Council was fighting against the developers applications they were planning to hand over an area of agricultural land about four times larger than the Parrs Lane ‘sites’.

    The new proposals earmarked the farm land running between Prescot Road/ Parrs Lane/Scarth Hill Lane and the railway line for 2,000 of dwellings. On top of this there is to be a 1000 student campus and a ‘Technology Park’ alongside St. Helens Road - the scale of these plans alone should signal to everyone that this is no longer just about a few thousand people in Aughton feeling their area is being ruined … this will affect not just Aughton but also Ormskirk and the wider area.

    Furthermore, everyone living in West Lancashire should sit up and pay attention to what the Borough Council is planning for our wider area; the proposed new Local Plan projects a total housing commitment of around 16,000 houses to be built in the Borough, most of it on farm land, and in addition further large sections of farm land has been earmarked for ‘employment’ developments.

    The 16,000 houses target is not intended to meet the housing needs of the Borough, the council's housing and population growth projections are much lower, and the current plan does that. Rather, it's to attract a massive additional population from outside the area, such as Sefton and Liverpool; to put this into perspective, 16,000 new homes will not only use up a lot of our best and most versatile agricultural land, it will bring in massive additional pressures on our roads, our services and the infrastructure in general. Some rough estimates of what 16,000 new homes could mean:

    • Around 20-30 thousand more adults needing doctors, dentists, NHS and Welfare services.
    • Around 15-25 thousand more young people needing schools and NHS services
    • Around 20-30 thousand more vehicles, many ‘commuting’ along our already congested main roads and creating even more ‘rat runs’


    The council’s current Local Plan runs until 2027 and has been demonstrated at various stages, including formal review points, Appeal Hearings and even in the Civil Courts to be meeting the housing needs of the Borough. You only have to drive around the Borough and see various large scale developments are well on the way to delivering the housing targets - so you have to ask why the council has decided to introduce a new Local Plan halfway through an effective plan?
     
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