Shepway LDF Core Strategy - Sellindge Masterplan Conclusions

Sellindge & District Residents' Association have just seen the ‘Shepway LDF Core Strategy – Cabinet Report 2011, entitled Sellindge Masterplan Conclusions’. Shepway, as yet, have not told us that it exists.

It can be viewed at the top of the 5th coloured Section 'Shepway - Housing/Village Green'. Just click on the link entitled 'Shepway LDF Core Strategy - Sellindge Masterplan Conclusions' to view. Once finished, click on the back arrow at the top left of the screen to return to here. 

Residents’ Association will comment once it has been studied. . 

Injustice

Please view the top link in Section 2) 'Otterpool Waste Application' in the right-hand colum entitled 'Hollingbourne Application - failed'. Its an article including comments made by Hugh Robertson in January 2004 in regard to a green Waste Application that failed in Hollingbourne - the applicant was Countrystyle Recycling Ltd.

Sellindge & District Residents ' Association comments to follow.

Changes to the Website

The website now has a Section for each of the 4 proposals, which would affect Sellindge, at the top of the right-hand column immediately below the 'Home page'. The top 6 Sections are:

1) The 'Home page' link - to return to 'Home'

2) Otterpool Waste Application (see Section 6 below to find correspondence including replies by KCC)

3) Wind Farm

4) Lorry Park

5) Shepway - Housing/Village Green

6) Otterpool Waste Application correspondence including replies from KCC

As you can see, there are various links within each Section.

If after clicking on a link, an image is shown of a newspaper article then by clicking on the 'image' it will be enlarged, making it easier to read.

Once you have finished click on the arrow in the top left corner to return to here, the 'Home page'.

Sellindge News - April 2011

The April issue of the Sellindge Village News (Edition 564) includes various comments regarding the KCC Planning Committee meeting on 15th March 2011 where KCC approved the Anaerobic Proposal but with conditions.

A copy of the newsletter can be found at the bottom of the 2nd coloured Section - 'Otterpool Waste Treatment'. Just click on to view. The Chairman of the Sellindge & District Residents Association, Ronald Lello, comments are on page 4. Once finished, click on the back arrow at the top left of the screen to return here.

Published draft of the KCC Minutes of the Planning Applications Committee on 15 March 2011

Here are the published draft of KCC Minutes of the Planning Applications Committee on 15 March 2011 - please note they 'could' be changed in a final agreed issue.  

To view the draft minutes , please go to the right-hand column, 2nd coloured Section down named 'Otterpool Waste Treatment - Latest' and click on the link entitled 'Draft Minutes KCC Meeting 15 March 2011'. Once finished, click on the back arrow in the top left of the screen to return here. 

Planning Application - Otterpool Quarry

Here is an update I received from KCC as many others will have done .......

Dear Mr Motley, Please find attached a notification of the decision taken at the Planning Applications Committee on 15 April 2011 regarding the planning application at Otterpool Quarry, Ashford Rd, Sellindge (Ref: SH/08/124), for your information. If you have any further queries, please contact the case officer, Angela Watts, on 01622 221059. Regards Richard Bore (Planning Tech Support Team Leader).

To view the notification, please go to the right-hand column, 2nd coloured Section down named 'Otterpool Waste Treatment - Latest' and click on the link entitled 'Planning Application - Otterpool Quarry' ). Once finished, click on the back arrow in the top left of the screen to return here. 

1 Swan Lane - proposed Planning Application - conversion from 1 house to 5 houses

From: Dave Motley <dave@davemotley.co.uk>
Date: 21 April 2012 10:24
Subject: 1 Swan Lane - proposed Planning Application - conversion from 1 house to 5 houses
To: sellindgeresidents@gmail.com

Dear Residents’ Association

I am very concerned with the proposed Planning Application (Reference - Y12/0293/SH) of 1 Swan Lane from 1 house to 5 houses, especially as this is at the corner of the busy A20 / Swan Lane junction.

As you will be aware, this is at the corner of the busy junction, between Swan Lane and the A20. The issues that particularly concern me are:

1)    Road Safety – The A20/Swan Lane junction is generally a busy junction, with all size of vehicle (lorries, buses, cars, motorbikes) entering Swan Lane (from both directions of the A20) and going onto the A20 from Swan Lane. There are often tailbacks and even the screech of brakes can be heard at this junction – an accident waiting to happen already and this would obviously increase that risk.

2)    Pedestrian Safety – Bearing in mind the above and especially with many school kids (running and on small bikes), grandchildren and the older person slowly walking past combined with the entrance being so very close (2 car lengths) to the A20 corner (i.e. cars coming round from the A20 would want to go straight into the entrance) – again a serious accident is waiting to happen

3)    Parking – Parking - allocated on site for 6 cars – i.e. 4 short of 2 per house. The application makes reference to utilising Downs Way for extra parking. How will parking be monitored so as not to cause problems for others in the area?

4)    Size of Conversion – With this being a significant proposed development, converting 1 house and ending up with 5 houses on the same land, at the centre of the Village will the character of the Village be maintained?

5)    School – I believe the School is over prescribed – where will school children go?

I look for your support.

Regards

A Local Resident

Dave Motley

Proposed Harringe Brooks Wind Park - 6 Turbines - Points to Remember

To make it easier to read the leaflet (enlarge the print)below, click on the image once. Once finished reading, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen to return to the website and then navigate your way around as usual. Use the 'Home' page link in Section 1 to return to the start.

M20 moveable barrier is scrapped - 5th April 2012 - Kentish Express

The article below was published on 5th April in the Kentish Express. To read the article (enlarge the print) click on the image below. Once finished, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen to return to the website and then navigate your way around as usual. Use the 'Home' page link in Section 1 to return to the start.

Turbine plan 'has sent house values tumbling'

The article below was published on 19th April 2012 in the Folkestone Herald. To read the article (enlarge the print) click on the image below. Once finished, click on the back-arrow at the top left of the screen to return to the website and then navigate your way around as usual. Use the 'Home' page link in Section 1 to return to the start. 

Meeting - Thursday 10th May at 7.30pm - Sellindge School

Dear Friends and Residents of Sellindge,

We last held a village meeting in September 2011 when the Quarry, the Lorry Park and the Shepway plan for Sellindge were high on the agenda. Since that time significant developments have taken place while other issues have disappeared from view – if only for the time being.

So far as we can ascertain, Lorry Park activity is dormant. We await developments.

Again there is no movement regarding the Countrystyle application for Otterpool Quarry. Last week KCC Planning Department said they had not heard anything since the application was granted subject to conditions way back in Spring 2011.

However, the same cannot be said about the Ecotricity and farmer Richard Price applications for wind turbines. These are now in process or immanent. People in the village differ in their views. Some certainly support wind turbines and even find them beautiful. Some people think that there is a moral reason – ‘the wind that blowest is free and clean’ – which should override any disadvantage they may have.

Many others find them an uneconomic aberration totally dependent on subsidies that the poorest in the community pay and that they cause great distress to those nearby and can greatly damage the life of a community. Certainly a village discussion in which all viewpoints can be made would be helpful in determining a forward strategy for wind turbines. And if we can persuade an independent person to provide a balanced view (such people are not easy to find) this should be helpful for us all.

Hearings are now to begin in Folkestone regarding the Shepway Core Strategy for this area. In response to the Strategic Plan for Sellindge the Residents Association proposed a development of a village green surrounded by new houses designed by Bob Edden.  This proposal excited Shepway planners who engaged Urban Initiatives to develop it – not as we would wish - but the opportunity to amend and shape Sellindge village remains. Details of the hearings can be found on our web site and the Sellindge and District Residents Association will endeavour to report back to you.

So we have arranged a Village Meeting to discuss turbines, wind factories  and housing developments in the future development of Sellindge. It will take place in the Sellindge School Hall on Thursday 10th May at 7 30 pm.

We have had some important meetings in Sellindge and this meeting is as important if not more so. Our village could become a centre for turbulent youth with nothing to do each and every evening or our village could be improved and developed in a way we would all like.

We hope you come and participate. It is important and especially important to show the planners that we are a strong and committed village..

Ronald Lello  Chairman Sellindge and District Residents Association