Aylesbury Vale District Council have posted a report on their website which lists all sites being considered for possible housing development in the coming years. They didn’t bother to tell the Town Council or indeed any of the Parish Councils involved that the report was there so how are people supposed to know about it?
The real shocks are the possibility of 1,000 houses on land between Little Horwood Road and Shipton hamlet and the potential sale of the Sports fields at the Winslow Centre for even more housing. Commenting on the report Llew says, ”Just when we thought we’d seen off Winslow Green and its 3,300 houses we now find we have another massive potential development on our doorstep. As to the Winslow Centre land it’s disgraceful that anyone should even think about selling off sports fields for housing. I would be strongly opposed to any development here and I imagine most residents would feel the same”
The 120 page report covers the whole of the Vale and asseses sites as to how suitable they are for potential development. In our area sites are considered in Padbury, Great Horwood and Winslow but only the latter are included in the detail of the sites listed as ‘suitable for residential development’. It is important to note that no applications have been submitted for these sites as yet but the detail is as follows
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Reference |
Location | No. of dwellings | Comment |
| 125/002 | South of railway / east of Furze Lane | 240 | Subject to Transport Assessment andprovision of facilities and suitable linksrequired to overcome distance fromtown centre |
| 125/006 | Former Gas board Site Station Road | 5 | Ground conditions require investigation. |
| 125/008 | Land East of Little Horwood Road | 1,000 | Subject to Transport Assessment andprovision of facilities and suitable linksrequired to overcome distance fromtown centre and transport |
| 125/009 |
Glebe Farm, Verney Rd West of Langley Close |
38 | Suitable if facilities provided indevelopment of site 125/001 toovercome distance from town centre |
| 125/011 | Former School playing field west of Winslow Centre | 70 | Suitable if developed in association with Site 125/002. Subject to TransportAssessment |
TO VIEW THE FULL 120 PAGE REPORT FOLLOW THIS LINK.
http://www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/GetAsset.aspx?id=fAAzADkANgAxAHwAfABGAGEAbABzAGUAfAB8ADAAfAA1
Llew will be raising this issue with the Town Council at the earliest opportunity and will ensure that the residents of Winslow have a proper opportunity to comment.