BDC CGV decision

Bolsover District Council grants outline planning permission for the Clowne Garden Village residential scheme

Transcript

00:00Hi, I'm Dominic Webb, Chair of the Clown Garden Village Action Group. Obviously we're disappointed,

00:08severely disappointed with the outcome of today's Planning Committee vote to go ahead

00:12and approve the outline planning permission for Clown Garden Village. We think that the

00:17Planning Committee have failed in the role that they had before them today. They couldn't

00:23give due regard to some very serious matters such as the environmental impact assessment

00:29and that's because the applicant didn't provide them with the information that they needed.

00:34Planning Officers I suppose did their best to try and wiggle things around and make things

00:39a bit more presentable but it doesn't get away from the fact that this planning application

00:43has just been approved on a very giant set of ifs, buts and maybes and as the Planning

00:49Officers were forced to admit all the benefits that are coming in the way of infrastructure

00:53improvements are not safe and are subject to the developers coming back and pleading

00:58poverty. And what's the next step Dom? I think the next step for us is that we already

01:03have the appeal ready to go, where the applicant was woefully short in their application was

01:09identifiable before today. So the appeal is ready to go, we have a call in request with

01:16the Secretary of State, there appears to be other people that have called this in to the

01:19Secretary of State as well. So I think we probably spend the next three, four years

01:24arguing this in court, at which point the Wastestones and the Council don't get any

01:28of the houses that they say they're getting in a year's time.