Tuesday 15 July 2014

Tendring Council Local Plan Committee Meeting 15th July 2014

I attended this meeting, along with around 100 other members of the public.

The minutes and recording will be on the Tendring Council website in due course, I expect.

Councillor Cook, a Colchester Councillor for St Anne's, spoke from the public benches to make comments about the 'Colchester Fringe' proposals.

I don't think public speakers at the meeting have the same effect as objections sent during the public consultation, because as the Chairman pointed out, the public are really only attending the meeting, not fully participating. So I still think it's a shame that no St Anne's politicians objected during the public consultation earlier this year (see my earlier blog post).

Joe also spoke with comments about potential loss of valued views in the proposed 'Colchester Fringe' area, and also made a point about the NPPF. Joe had also previously emailed a submission to Tendring Council for the meeting, which they had received.

Some very interesting maps and text from Tendring Council regarding the Colchester Fringe proposals were shown, which are in addition to the ones I mentioned in my previous blog post, but in the same document.

These extra maps and text are here:

'Figure 14 – Land at Plains Farm, south of A120', and 'Figure 15 – Land east of Colchester between A133 and A120' and bullet points 5.9 to 5.16 in
'A2 Appendix E - Identifying Broad Locations for Potential Settlement Expansion - July 2014'
(This document is available from the agenda page for the meeting and should be available from the minutes.)

It was stressed that at this time, Tendring Council are only putting forward high-level possibilities. Some of the land mentioned has not yet been put forward for development by its owners.

Regards
James
Colchester East Action Group (CHEAG)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/colchestereastactiongroup

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