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“Save Angmering” was formed to ensure that ANY housing developments in Angmering are appropriate and suitable for all our village residents.
NEWSFLASH!!!
Planning Consultants representing Humber Growers Ltd are soon to have pre-application talks with Arun District Council about the future development of the VHB site in Roundstone Lane for residential use.
All of these proposed housing developments are not a “done deal”, and SAV will continue to fight off this concentrated attack by developers to completely ruin our village.
SAV’s Action Plan includes
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increasing public awareness (emails, posters, flyers, banners, Press and possible TV coverage, presence at the forthcoming village fetes)
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employing professional Planning Consultants to assist SAV prepare its case against the developers
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consulting with Traffic Survey Professionals
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assisting villagers when the time comes to write letters objecting to this development onslaught
To facilitate this action SAV (which is non-funded and relies totally on donations) has set up a FIGHTING FUND. Please help us continue our campaign making contributions directly into SAV’s account “Save Angmering Village” 40-42-51 Account No 91278258, or by cheque payable to “Save Angmering Village” sent to SAV, 3 Cumberland Road, Angmering. BN16 4BG.
Thank you for helping us to save our village from all large-scale housing developments.
Recent News
In April SAV volunteers delivered voting forms to every house in Angmering parish. Of the 5,882 registered voters, 38.4% (2261) responded to the question
“Do you support new large-scale housing developments in the parish of Angmering such as the one currently being proposed by Barratts/David Wilson Homes?”
7 voted “for” and 2,254 “against” Therefore 99.69% of the voters are large-scale housing developments in Angmering.
On 23rd April 2012 SAV presented Angmering Parish Council with a letter stating the results at the Council’s meeting.
If Barratts/David Wilson Homes put in a Planning Application to Arun District Council we will each have to write a letter of objection. SAV will let you know how and when to do this on this website and by email. If SAV don’t already have your email address, please email us at saveangmering@hotmail.co.uk.
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The Neigbourhood Plan is being drawn up by people of the village to determine what this Parish wants and doesn’t want. It is the plan for Angmering until 2028. The result of all the research will be a written document that will be given to every resident of Angmering. Once this is done, there will be a referendum. If the people agree with what is in the Plan it will go to Arun District Council and become the Council’s policy for the Parish of Angmering.
Realistically this won’t be until the autumn. Meanwhile, Arun’s 5 year Plan has already expired. So during this time, when there is, effectively no Plan in place, the Developers, ie Barratts and perhaps Persimmons, are going to rush their Planning Applications into Arun District Council. The latest planning applications for large developments that have gone to Arun District Council have gone to appeal and the Secretary of State has made the decision. In the case of Felpham, the Secretary of State agreed to the Developers building the houses.
You can read more about it on the Angmering Village Life Forum 4 pages http://www.angmeringvillage.co.uk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1226
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700 new houses for Angmering?!
(300 on Manor Nurseries
and land to the south of it,
200 on the Rugby Club site
and 200 on the VHB site)
There are indications that up to 700 houses to be built in Angmering. That’s 200 on the Rugby Club site in 2013, and a further 300 on the Manor Nurseries site and land south of it with building that could start in 2012. It is possible the VHB site could also sell up in the future.
The Rugby Club
If the Rugby Club can get permission to move to a Worthing site, then Persimmons Homes propose to build 200 houses on the Rugby Club site. Building could start in 2013.
The Manor Nursery site and land to the south of it
Barratt Homes have the option on the land at the Manor Nurseries site and land to the south of it (between the northern boundary of the Rugby Club and the High Street- near the Spotted Cow). They have Plans which show 301 new houses (12 in a cul-de-sac where Manor Nurseries is, with an exit onto the High Street, and the rest on land to the south of Manor Nurseries with one exit onto Roundstone Lane at the Nursery Road roundabout). 90 of these houses are to be “affordable/social houses”. Barratts have said they intend to submit a Planning Application to Arun District Council “in the next couple of months”. They could push through all the planning process with Arun District Council very quickly without regard for Angmering’s ability to support these houses or even any need for them. Building could start this year (2012). There was hardly any public information available about this proposed development until January 2012. Barratt’s and David Wilson Homes held an exhibition at Angmering Village Hall on 4th February 2012. The Plans can now be seen online, and you can leave your comments at http://www.barrattsotoncommunity.co.uk/site/2011/current-sites/roundstone-lane-angmering? or at http://www.dwhsotoncommunity.co.uk/site/dwh/current-sites/angmering?
Barratts attended the meeting of the Steering Group of the Community Led Plan for Angmering at the Community Centre on Tuesday January 24th 2012 at 7:30. Last November the Steering Committee’s meeting was attended by the Rugby Club and Persimmon Homes. The minutes of all the Working Parties of the Community Led Plan for Angmering can be found here http://www.angmeringparishcouncil.gov.uk/main.cfm?type=STEERINGGROUPMINUT
Angmering Village Life Website
Please look at the Angmering Village Life website. There is some very interesting up-to-date information on these Developments and the Neighbourhood Plan etc posted here: http://www.angmeringvillage.co.uk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1226
post of 21 Jan “which led to APC (Angmering Parish Council) setting a policy of no more than 150 new homes in Angmering from now until 2026. APC has already communicated its policy to Arun District Council, irrespective of what any fine tuning may be done by the Community-Led Plan committee.”
post of 20 Jan gives a link to the Telegraph article where David Cameron is reported as saying “I care deeply about our countryside and environment. Our vision is one where we give communities much more say, much more control. The fear people have in villages is the great big housing estate being plonked down from above. Our reforms will make it easier for communities to say ‘we are not going to have big plonking housing estate landing next to the village, but we would like 10, 20, 30 extra houses and we would like them built in this way, to be built for local people’.”
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Say “NO” to a possible further 700 houses in Angmering !
Our Village has already grown by 27% when the Bramley Green estate was built (about 600 houses) and it simply has not got the infrastructure to cope with a further large development. It would destroy the rural nature of Angmering Village.
Join us in our campaign to save our village life by opposing these large housing developments.
Save Angmering !
