Dedham Vale Society

Boxted Mill shortly before demolition in 1925He apparently had no bank-account, always lived in rented property and didn’t own a car. He left nopaper-trail apart from his drawings.My thanks to the following for help in preparing this article: Sarah Carr, Douglas Carter, ThomasMaxwell and Catherine Whitworth-Jones.Paul GallifantHORKESLEY PARKThe long awaited Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners Report on Bunting and Sons’ application is now in thepublic domain and accessible via the Colchester Borough Council (CBC) Planning Website.A little background:In February 2009, within a month of the application being lodged, the CBC Spatial Planning Groupproduced a very critical report on Horkesley Park recommending refusal in no uncertain terms.However, their report was low on factual analysis and not the sort of document that could be put beforea Planning Committee or the Planning Inspectorate at any subsequent appeal hearing.Therefore at the end of 2009 CBC commissioned Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners to produce an in-depthreport on the Tourism and Retail content, and an Economic Appraisal of the application. It is believedthat this report has been in the hands of CBC since February, Bunting & Sons have had access to it, buttheir comments were limited to questions of fact, and it was released into the Public Domain on 7 July.The Report is critical of much of the application, an assessment agreed with others who have opposedHorkesley Park, and certainly provides the basis on which CBC may refuse the application and face anAppeal with confidence. However, remember as this is a “departure” application CBC can only say“they are minded to recommend refusal” and then refer the application to central Government for finaldecision. However, Bunting and Sons through their experts and legal advisers have now issued a 40613