Bamford & Norden April 2019
Bamford & Norden April 2019
Bamford & Norden April 2019
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Adopting the 2016 statistics would<br />
potentially negate the need to develop on<br />
any Greenbelt sites and is major focus<br />
across the groups, which has now invoked<br />
a Government petition to be raised.<br />
Further to this there is also a complete<br />
scientism and lack of evidence that<br />
brownfield or urban development sites<br />
have been fully exhausted and that the<br />
councils are doing everything in their power<br />
to support this. A recent study by one of the<br />
members of SBGB committee has<br />
uncovered a further additional 12 sites that<br />
may suitable and has now been provided to<br />
the local MP.<br />
Finally there is the issue of availability<br />
currently Peel Holdings own only 1/3 of the<br />
land on the <strong>Bamford</strong> development site with<br />
the rest being owned by local landowners,<br />
one of those David Mills whose family have<br />
farmed the land for over 100 years and<br />
recently addressed residents at <strong>Bamford</strong>s<br />
open forum advising that he and his family<br />
hadn’t asked for this and don’t want it. They<br />
feel under constant threat that potentially<br />
compulsory purchase may be invoked.<br />
This scenario has been put forward to each<br />
of the above leaders all of whom have<br />
indicated that CPO should not come into<br />
play in circumstances were peoples homes<br />
and livelihoods would be impacted who<br />
don’t want to sell. However, in the absence<br />
of a firm commitment the future for these<br />
residents is still uncertain, we have<br />
requested from Andy Burnham for firm<br />
policy to be implemented within the GMSF<br />
that would protect people’s homes and<br />
livelihoods from CPO.<br />
Residents are urged to get involved by:<br />
Following the Facebook page @savebamfordgreenbelt share<br />
posts and add videos<br />
Follow SBGB on twitter @bamfordgreen<br />
Government Petition - Use most recent household growth<br />
projections when planning housing need.<br />
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/242244<br />
Have your say by submitting your views via the GMSF consultation site –<br />
https://www.gmconsult.org/communications-and-engagement-team/gmsf/consultation/<br />
Visit our website www.streetwisemag.co.uk for all the info about the Streetwise magazines<br />
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