Cllr Tony Nicklin DEVELOPERS should be taken to task for not building new homes as soon as they gain planning permission for them, says a Warminster town councillor. Cllr Tony Nicklin, the chairman of Warminster Town Council s planning advisory committee and chairman of the town s Neighbour Plan working group, says they are fed up of developers gaining planning approval and then sitting on their applications instead of building the new homes for which they have been given permission. Speaking during an online webinar as part of Wiltshire s Local Plan Review consultation, Cllr Nicklin asked why Warminster continues to contribute to Wiltshire Council s housing deficit.
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Mast concerns IT CAME as a big surprise to learn from my local residents’ association that a re-application has been received by our BCP planning department to install a 20m (65ft) high 5G monopole tower with six antennas, two transmission dishes atop plus four ground level equipment cabinets in a residential area on a small recreational parcel of public land next to Talbot roundabout. One of the declared commercial beneficiaries of this installation is Huawei. Further investigation revealed that the applicant is only legally obliged to put up small discreet laminated posters near the installation site for them to be able to cite that they have fully engaged with the local neighbourhood and community.
to prevent neighbouring towns merging into one another;
to assist in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment;
to preserve the setting and special character of historic towns;
to assist in urban regeneration, by encouraging the recycling of derelict and other urban land.
Developing land designated as Green Belt usually requires exceptional circumstances, but although rare, it is not impossible to build on.
A 2014 image shows North Hertfordshire s Green Belt designation. Ickleford is just to the north of Hitchin.
- Credit: North Herts District Council
As part of the emerging Local Plan 2016 -2031, this southern part of Ickleford has been designated white land according to planning documents published by NHDC - meaning it is not afforded the same protections as that land within the Green Belt.
PLANS to turn a former convenience store into a Domino s pizza takeaway within a 400-metre exclusion zone of nearby schools have been refused as it would conflict with the council s bid to reduce childhood obesity . Proposals to change the use of the former Sherdley News & Booze on Mill Lane, Sutton Leach, into a takeaway on the ground floor and a three-bedroom residential flat on the first floor were sent to the local authority. Plans stated the ground floor would include a customer area at the front, a limited amount of seating; kitchen, office and wash up area towards the centre and staff welfare and storage areas towards the back with a refuse store at the rear of the takeaway.