Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

F/YR23/0245/O | Erect up to 175 x dwellings (outline application with matters committed in respect of access) | Land South Of 250 Drybread Road Whittlesey Cambridgeshire.
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This is an outline application (more or less the starting point of the project.

I understand there has been quite a lot of ‘Social Media’ around the applications and some Councillors encouraging contact with the Fenlands Planning Committee member Cllr Elisabeth Sennitt Clough – who lives in the other application area.
All of those who sit on the Planning Committee are supposed to be not pre-determined and Cllr Sennitt Clough has made this known.

This and the other application are ‘wrong’ – FDC Planning Officers have recommended ‘To Approve’ – this is going against The Whittlesey Local Plan – which took a number of years and cost £Thousands to impliment / passed through all the governement agencies.
Now we find that it means very little.

#See the article on JE CambsNews© Click Here

Just one comment NHS CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND PETERBOROUGH ICB
The proposed development is likely to have an impact on the services of the 2 x
GP Practices operating within the vicinity of the application and this is within the development: Jenner Healthcare and Lakeside Healthcare, New Queen Street Surgery.

These practices have a combined registered patient list size of 36,790 and this development of 175 dwellings would see an increase patient pressure of circa 403 new residents which would require additional GP/Nurse / (Admin support) workforce to support increase in appointments : GP = 0.20 / Nurse = 0.14 and Admin = 0.39 with a resulting increase on estate demand of27.60 sqm net internal area.

Below was the original information that the applicant put out, this may have changed.

FDC planning committee meets at 1pm on Wednesday, 16th October; it will be live streamed on the council’s YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/user/FenlandCouncil

FDC planning committee meets at 1pm on Wednesday, 16th October; it will be live streamed on the council’s YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/user/FenlandCouncil

No one is listening !!!!! – Planning Law !!!! – Local Plan !!!!
Nothing wrong with good local development but how long must some of us
harp on about ‘Infrastucture’ – Doctors/Dentists and the Road Network.
(Education has to be provided for by Councty Council)

More tomorrow.

Saxongate help uncover the cause of the recent Snoots Road odour issue.
Saxongate would like to thank members for their accurate and honest reporting of the horrendous odour issues which started last Thursday. 

The smell was particularly bad at the A605 (Peterborough Road) end of Snoots Road and was at times even apparent in Stonald Road. 

The odour returned again yesterday (7th Oct) and, thankfully, one of the Fenland District Health’s Environmental team, has responded and appears to have identified the issue.

If they are correct the offending works fall under an Environmental Agency (EA) permit. Frustratingly we therefore now have to wait for the EA to respond to the new information before we can say any more on the matter. Assuming our information is correct it does appear the issue will be temporary (to a degree) and that with better thought and planning around weather and wind direction more can be done to protect the amenity and well-being of local residents, as should be the case anyway with permit and planning regulated works.

It is disappointing that the EA have not responded to any of the reports Saxongate have sent them. At least someone at Fenland District Health’s Environmental team took the trouble to come out and respond to local residents’ issues and pleas for help. 

The usual  small print, how to raise complaints and a help request:-

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