Objection to Outline PP applications 21/06215/OUT ( Hollands Farm, Bourne End)

Urgent — today 15th July: For anyone with 15mins to spare, who wishes to object to excessive development, please cut and paste from the below—-but importantly tweak to your own words—as identical copies are not permitted/ counted.
With both Beaconsfield and Bourne End suffering from this blindness/ madness, your help would be appreciated.

please email any objections in to the Wycombe planning email address shown before 5pm 15th July.

Thanks, Syd

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Objection to Outline PP applications 21/06215/OUT ( Hollands Farm, Bourne End)

• The FINAL Development Brief, consistent with Council's own Local Plan has not yet been considered/ published. This should help determine the overall plan and help to assess any planning applications.

• This is an Outline planning application only, not a full planning application. Significant issues like the transport network, sewage problems, infrastructure capacity (of what is essentially a smallish village capacity) need to be fully thought through and resolved, well in advance of any development here ( or the expected Jackson's field part-development) potentially getting any green lights.

• This is only a partial representation of the whole WLP (Wycombe Local Plan) BE2 site (it excludes Capreon/Jackson's Field). Without the plans going in tandem/ conjunction, it clearly cannot be determined to work as an 'overall site' proposal.

• The application FAILS to meet the 800 house total aggregation, as clearly stated in Council's Own Local Plan.
The failure of Council to issue a FINAL Develepment brief ( despite now some 4 1/2 months elapsed time since the Draft consultation period ended on 17th Feb) has contributed to this clear numerical error---a single and fatal flaw in this Outline application .
The Council should not permit a premature action by a Land Promoter ( taken on 18th Feb 2021, 1 day after a Council Draft DB consultation period ended) to subvert Council's own due process. Surely the public's efforts to respond by 17th Feb 2021 needs be considered.
The proposed number of dwellings for BE2 in the WLP was a top number (UP TO 467) based on the housing numbers and assessed needs at the time when the Local plan was prepared as far back as back in 2013/4. Subsequent to that time, the latest housing figures for the area show that the figure of 800 homes allocated to Bourne End has been mostly covered already with other developments/ conversions and as such there is now a deficit of only approx 250 homes ( not 400, or 467).
Planning for any number in excess to this Local Plan total of 800 should not be agreed until a new addition/ assessment has been done or else the area could end up with over 1000 new homes which was acknowledged in the WLP as being completely unsustainable for the area, with massive infrastucture problems of traffic, sewage, local services simply ignored in an Outline PP step.
The number of houses needs to be roughly HALVED ( from 400 to 200) in this Outline application, to sit within the 800 house Local Plan sustainable total.

A subsidiary numerical flaw to this Outline application is that housing numbers in the WLP for the BE2 (Hollands Farm site) state UP TO 467 houses. The site which is now split with 2 land promoters has indicted a total number of 475 houses (400 in the application from Catesby and 75 were proposed in the Capreon/Jackson Field consultation). 400 plus 75 exceeds 467, in addition to the more fundamental error of 800 WLP total noted above.

The application FAILS to include the entire link road committed in WLP BE2 (so there is no guarantee of this being included by any developer or combination of developers who might progress with the build). Beaconsfield currently suffers from 'a road to nowhere' stalemate and should the Council not take action here, a similar fiasco would likely unfold between 2 developers, with neither taking full responsibility for proper Northern and Southern site access AND a fully engineered relief road, constructed AHEAD of development, not left to become a 'site ransom' issue, as clearly seen in Beaconsfield.
Bourne End community would not welcome changes to Clock Tower or Penny's Garden. Suggesting changes to just this single roundabout rather than addressing all site and traffic problems ( Hedsor rd access, N site access, Cookham Bridge capacity and Cores End/ Princess rd to name just a few) clearly shows to scant detail/ community disregard by Land Promoter in this Outline application. This application is incomplete/ incompetent at best or completely disregarding community needs, at worst.

• The application FAILS fails to meet WLP requirements for buffers to existing residential areas. Many of the residential areas have an insufficient buffer zone, contrary to the plans in the Development Brief and those outlined in the WLP for BE2.

• The application FAILS on the subject of housing character/ density. Housing densities would be double the average for Bourne End and significantly in excess to all adjoining areas, if this massive over-development were to proceed. In addition to this, the size of the land allocated to BE2 has shrunk since it was first put forward/ adopted into the WLP ( with Church land/ many of the Farm buildings have now been removed from the allocated area). This reduction of the land available and simultaneously suggesting squeezing that inappropriate volume number of houses& other amenities into that decreased footprint, results in an even higher density.

• The Outline Plan as submitted results in a single access site to Hedsor road. This would be both a questionable and unsafe access solution for Hedsor Road, plus Cookham Bridge traffic is already beyond capacity at peak hours, as is traffic towards Bourne End centre.
Despite Councils claims, NO total look at whole traffic picture exists, to include potential new developments from BOTH sides of Cookham Bridge. Both Wycombe and RBWM have failed to insist on such an overall assessment, including all potential large scale developments already tabled to date.

• Unsafe and impracticable plans for "emergency access" at Heavens Lea. This should NOT be used for other purposes, given an incredibly steep, blind and 4-way dangerous junction, which clearly does not conform to current Highways guidelines/ rules.

• The Primary School proposed location is poor with unsafe access for drop-off and pick-up.

• The application FAILS to meet or prove biodiversity net gain and climate change measures at the site itself.
The recently published Biodiversity advice ( Feb 2021) clearly intends actions should be taken at the site in question, not hide behind some hidden or unwanted offset, some miles distant at Little Marlow.

Regards,
Name and address added at foot of email.