Nursing Home Refusal, leads HRA Chairman Peter Higgins to demand the field is returned to it's former green pasture status ,with tons of illegally laid hard standing to be removed by enforcement officers, at BDC.
Don't hold your breath on this one.
DECEMBER 2010
Hopwood Womens Institute was 90 years old in December 2010;- is one of the oldest Institutes in the County. It was started by Lady Smedley Crooke in December 1920 and it's home is Hopwood Village Hall where it's members meet on the first Thursday of the month at 7.30pm . Don't be fooled that it's all 'Jam and Jerusalem 'because it's a lot more besides.They are a very sociable lot have interesting speakers, go out once a month for lunches, enjoy county meetings covering all sorts of subjects, meet up with other local Institutes, have sports days. quiz nights, and walks and all men are welcomed to their parties, and obviously we welcome any ladies that would like to join us.
Contact HRA (hra@hopwoodonline .co.uk) if anyone is interested.
8-June-2010
Application for 80 Bed-Roomed Nursing Home
This plan is for a three story, 80 room building plus offices. It is proposed that it will have 80 full time staff and 10 part time staff. There will be parking for 57 vehicles, which includes 6 disabled parking spaces, access and egress to the site will be off and onto the island.
This plan has now been put back to the 9th August 2010, for further consideration and possible amendments.
Our feelings on this are that there will be some sort of building allowed on this site in the future, without some good, sound and well founded arguments to the contrary for a nursing home, as this along with Affordable Housing are the only type of developments considered for landwithin the Green Belt.
So if you have genuine concern please put your objections quoting
planning app. no.: 08/1038(Nursing Home at Hopwood)
TO;
Bromsgrove District Council
Matt Tyas
Planning Department
Bromsgrove
Worcestershire
B60 1AA
7th March-2010
AGM of the Residents Association, have elected and re-elected officers to the committee, we have also enlisted a volunteer in L.Smith as the new treasurer so our committee at the moment is back up to 7, following the resignation of Mark Peters.
It has been proposed that a few more committee members should join so that their particular area of Hopwood can be represented, I or one of the other members will be asking people in the near future if they would like to take part at our meetings.
The next meeting will be either May 22 or May 23 and will be posted on the web site.
Agendas can be seen the week before meetings by contacting any committee member, if they have not already been posted on the web site.
Already on the agenda for the next meeting is;
1.Fixing the venues and dates for this years meetings .
2.Litter around the area.
3.Parking and Verges along the A441 towards the motorway services.
4.Speeding on the A441 and the need for a crossing.
5 Road signs
8 Feb 2010
News papers are now on sale at the Garage at the end of Ash Lane
A NEW Conservative candidate has been chosen to fight the Bromsgrove seat in this year's general election.
Sajid Javid, a businessman and entrepreneur with family connections to the West Midlands,
The Residents' Committee, complained that the Council did not consider properly an application for 20 affordable housing development units in the
Green Belt, adjacent to a hamlet of around 60 dwellings.
Local residents submitted a petition opposing the development but the Councillor did not pass this to the Council.
To demonstrate local need for affordable housing, the applicant submitted a survey of housing need in the wider parish, some data about average house prices and incomes in the area, and information from the Council's housing register.
The Planning Manager recommended that the Council refuse the application because the development did not meet local or national planning policy. In particular, the officer considered that:
. The development was not small scale, suitable for its location or sustainable
and that the applicant had not demonstrated a local housing need.
. The development is inappropriate in the Green Belt and there were no special circumstances that outweigh the harm caused to it.
. More information was needed about harm to potential protected wildlife habitats and the loss of protected trees.
Members approved the development against the Officer's recommendation.
The Ombudsman found that Members:
. Failed to distinguish between housing need and housing demand.
. Took an irrelevant factor into account in assessing harm to the Green Belt.
. Failed to give adequate consideration to officer advice about protected tree cover, and to Natural England's advice about possible habitats for protected species on the site.
. Failed to give adequate reasons for approving the application.
Finding
Maladministration causing injustice. .
Recommended remedy
To remedy the injustice I have recommended that the Council should pay the complainant.
