Clowne Garden Village housing protest (1)

Clowne Garden Village housing protest

Transcript

00:00 So if you can just tell me why we're here.

00:01 So we're here to protest against the 1800 houses that Bolsover District Council want

00:05 to build on the north side of Clown.

00:08 It's going to impact all the infrastructure within the area.

00:10 We're going to need new primary schools, we're going to need extensions built into the existing

00:15 secondary schools.

00:17 The road network can't handle the new 3,500 cars that are going to be on the roads.

00:24 And the medical centres are going to be overwhelmed with approximately about 23,000 more appointments

00:30 every year.

00:31 So this is the action group out telling Bolsover District Council at their full council meeting

00:37 that we don't want the houses building and they need to go away and come up with a better

00:41 plan.

00:42 As a Bolsover Parish Councillor, we feel that Trouble Bob Roundabout, we're going to be

00:48 impacted by all this new housing in terms of traffic coming through the village.

00:54 You know we're already getting another 650 houses down at Maston Moor, another 450 down

00:59 at Whitwell, you know 1,800 houses here.

01:03 It's going to be an absolute nightmare.

01:04 It's terrible at the moment for people trying to cross Trouble Bob Roundabout and certainly

01:05 it's impossible for children, you know, that are trying to get to school into the village.

01:17 This is really a really, really bad deal for them, certainly for Bolsover.

01:21 And God knows what it's going to do for Clown.

01:24 You know the infrastructure on the roads is terrible now and there's going to be no improvement

01:30 whatsoever.

01:31 So, for us, it's an absolute disaster.

01:33 And I think where Bolsover District Council have now really crossed the line and have

01:38 really I think lost the moral high ground is they're allowing the developers to cut

01:42 the affordable housing contribution from 10% to 5% to pay for the roundabout and also to

01:50 make a contribution towards the regeneration project for Clown which Bolsover District

01:55 Council yesterday decided to kill off.

01:57 So not only are we losing 50% of the affordable houses that we would have got, we're not

02:03 now going to get any of the improvements to Clown Town Centre that would have been happening

02:07 under the Clown Regeneration Framework.

02:08 framework.