DBC will publish its Core Strategy on 26 October 2011.

Dacorum’s Core Strategy Pre-Submission 6 week Consultation – Details here

BERKHAMSTED EDUCATION PROVISION

- HCC minutes of meeting held on 14th Oct 2011 Education Provision Berkhamsted (word file)

(Greenway and Westfield expansion abandoned; consultation on a new first school at Bridgewater or move to a 2 tier  System. Scary stuff on the possibility of Ashlyns closing for lack of numbers but mainatining a 3 tier system…… )

SAY NO TO GUI

10th Oct  -Residents in the Hall Park area have produced a flyer giving details of how to register your opposition to the  South Berkhamsted Concept proposal. Objections need to  made ASAP before the proposal goes to the Planning Inspectorate  Click here to view

SYBRA Market stall

8th Oct -Thanks to all those who came to see us – we have 38 new members, so thank you for your  support and encouragement. Our  membership  is still only a small proportion of those who signed our  petition  – so please  do enourage your  friends and neighbours who are  concened about the impact of  a proosed 2000+ new homes to join SYBRA

Core Strategy -OPTION 2 endorsed by  the Full  Council

28th Sept- DBC Full Council  endorsed OPTION 2 of the Core Strategy (now-11800 in Berkhamsted including 180 on the Egerton Rothesay site by 2015 !) Following publication (Nov?) there will be a 6 week formal consultation period before submission to the Planning Inspector.  Objections will need to be largely technical -brief  details here

National Trust  Campaign – “Planning is for  people not  for Profit.”

Sign their  petition  here

Core Strategy -OPTION 2 endorsed by  Cabinet

26th July- DBC Cabinet meeting endorsed OPTION 2 of the Core Strategy(11300 dwellings-1200 in Berkhamsted) as opposed to Option 1 (9800 dwellings) which was clearly the preferred option from the consultation process. Final approval willl be given by the full council on 28th Sept, and it will go to the Planning Inspectorate for approval/challenge next year.

To be kept upto date on progress strategic.planning@dacorum.gov.uk, or call 01442 228660.

The decision was heavily influenced by  the latest ONS projetions for 3400 homes in Dacorum and fear that  Developers (GUI etc) will challenge the strategy which does not meet the latest figures.

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Telegraph Article on  Government Legislation on Green Belt changes!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/planning/8626874/Battle-lines-for-the-Green-Belt.html

GUI/Quatro Exhibitions

Grand Union Investments are proposing a development of 1000 homes at the top of Swing Gate Lane. This is in addition to the 1200 homes in the core strategy. If you visited the exhibitions and have any thoughts you  can leave them on our comments page

Proposed ARLA MILK FACTORY at  Aston Clinton – think this won’t  affect  Berkhamsted – just  look at  their  traffic predictions!

• “When the dairy reaches capacity, which will take some time, an average of 20 lorries per hour will come to the dairy.” {oh -and another  20 out!}
• “We would route as many vehicles as possible down the A41 towards London as this has a two-way capacity of 70,000 and currently only 23,000 are using it”
• That’s an additional HGV  in each direction -EVERY  3 MINUTES – on  an already  dangerous road!!

Proposed Localization Bill

SYBRA attended  a meeting  organized  by  Transition  Town  Berkhamsted (TTB) to  explain the impact of the Localization  bill on  local  planning.  An interesting  meeting where it was confirmed that  the bill (if passed in its current  form) is essentially  a charter for developers  but  with  possibilities for  local councils to influence the character of  their  neighbourhoods within the constraints of the  Local Development  Framework . However our Secretary Alan  made some comments which  the Gazette (June 15th – P9) reporter  clearly  found interesting  and we seem inadvertantly  to  have hijacked the meeting  – Sorry TTB

Will your child  have a school place in Berkhamsted?

2 years ago primary school children were  bused to Hemel – It could happen again<more>

Freedom of Information Requests

A Freedom of Information Request (FOI) has been submitted to HCC re some of the concerns raised about the Egerton Rothsay/Durrants Lane Development.  For more Information and HCC response click here

A similar request has been subitted to DBC  (click here for  details) -Their  response is awaited