HaShTAG Hatherley & Shurdington Triangle Action Group
 

HaShTAG, Hatherley & Shurdington Triangle Action Group

Uniting against the proposals to build on our much loved greenbelt


  1. -Your Countryside Needs You - Oct 2017.pdf

  2. - CPRE Submission to TBC on 17_00924_OUT 500 house Chargrove Lane - Oct 2017.pdf

BBC Points West reporting on how “the councils proposing the [JCS] development have got their figures wrong”. Leader of the council Steve Jordan admits the housing targets are

“sort of the best guess” (broadcast November 2013)

PUBLIC MEETING

There is a JCS public meeting being held on 29th November,7pm at Up Hatherley Village Hall Download our flyer.

UPDATE March 2014  Chargrove REMOVED from the JCS


UNDER THE JOINT CORE STRATEGY PLAN, CHELTENHAM, TEWKESBURY & GLOUCESTER COUNCILS WANT TO BUILD 800 HOUSES ON THE GREENBELT BETWEEN UP HATHERLEY WAY (by Morrisons) & CHARGROVE LANE, Inspector Ord rejected the site allocation for many planning reasons, it is designated as most valued part of Cheltenham Greenbelt by AMEC in the JCS Greenbelt Review. 


Huge turnout for HaShTAG’s first protest march from Shurdington to Leckhampton, top story on BBC Public consultation for the Joint Core Strategy (JCS) plan started on 15 October 2013. All views have to be with the JCS team no later than 13 December 2013. You only have a few weeks left to make your views known. This plan will have serious implications to our community. Loss of our green fields. Additional 33,000 houses in Cheltenham, Tewkesbury & Gloucester based on inaccurate growth in population figures. Pressure on local services such as schools, hospitals & doctors.


The JCS team want you to provide your comments on their website WWW.GCT-JCS.ORG by Email [email protected] OR by letter.


WE URGE YOU TO SEND YOUR VIEWS TO THE JCS TEAM BY LETTER.


Send your letters to Public Consultation, Joint Core Strategy Team, Municipal Offices, Promenade, Cheltenham, Glos, GL50 9SA from 15 October 2013, no later than 13 December 2013.


We welcome your support in fighting these proposals, for more information about HaShTAG, local people who have formed a campaign group, please contact us, call us 0784 7711 468 or email [email protected] or www.facebook.com/pages/hashtag-Chargrove or follow us

@hashtagchargrve on Twitter. ‘Hashtag does not have any particular stance but reserves the right to criticise any ruling party not following it’s environmental aims, especially with regard to the Chargrove area’

BBC Points West reporting on the victory for local campaigners after plans for 800 new houses in Up Hatherley were scrapped. (broadcast March 2014)

HELP - YOUR COUNTRYSIDE NEEDS YOU - PLANNING CONSULTATION to Mid NOVEMBER 2017    

A planning application has been submitted to Tewkesbury Borough Council by Redcliffe Homes to build 500 houses plus commercial buildings, for offices & shops on the Green Belt land between Up Hatherley Way & Chargrove Lane.


This must be stopped, we do not believe this application should be allowed for the following reasons.


  1. 1.Up Hatherley Way is a strong ‘permanent’ Green Belt boundary and the application does not meet the “very special circumstances” needed to allow building on the Green Belt. If allowed it would halve the Green Belt between Up Hatherley & Shurdington.


  1. 2.The Chargrove site has a very sensitive setting in the landscape, both for views from Leckhampton Hill and from Up Hatherley and towards the hills.


  1. 3.A large number of trees, all currently protected by a tree preservation order, would be felled if development was allowed. These include a rare surviving Traditional Perry orchard that has protected ‘Priority Habitat’ status and is also included on Gloucestershire’s HER (Historic Environment Record). The orchard, the surrounding hedgerows and trees provide an irreplaceable habitat for a large number of endangered bats, birds and other wildlife.


  1. 4.Any increase in traffic numbers, which could be in excess of 1000 cars from 500 houses, will have a serious impact on Shurdington Road & the Arle Court roundabout, which already struggle with the weight of traffic.


  1. 5.Chargrove Lane and the footpaths off the Lane provide an easily accessible, free, health and leisure amenity for the local & wider communities to enjoy. It provides a safe place for walking, jogging & cycling whilst giving the feeling that you are in the middle of the countryside.
    Chargrove Lane is unique around Cheltenham, still unspoilt by development & traffic on the edge of the large Up Hatherley housing estates.
    Redcliffe’s development would inevitably take away this countryside experience from you & your family.


  1. 6.There is no planning policy to support this application, neither in the JCS (Joint Core Strategy, which is almost finalised), nor in the Cheltenham or Tewkesbury Local Plans. It is purely a speculative application for the developer’s profit.


We need to let Tewkesbury Borough Council (“TBC”) know why we object to this development proposal.


Please give TBC your comments on this application by 31/10/2017, making sure you quote the reference number 17/00924/OUT, by either:-


-  Access TBC’s planning website & use their Public Access system to make your comments:
            http://publicaccess.tewkesbury.gov.uk/online-applications
            (enter the reference number (above) and Search, then Register and add your comments); or

-  send an email to TBC - [email protected] ; or

  1. - send a letter to: Development Manager, Borough Development, Tewkesbury Borough Council, Council Offices, Gloucester Road, Tewkesbury, Glos, GL20 5TT.

IF THERE ARE TWO OR MORE PEOPLE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD IT IS PREFERABLE TO EACH SEND AN INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE RATHER THAN A SINGLE JOINT RESPONSE.

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