It’s D-Day next week as the revised application goes before Horsham District Council’s full Planning Committee at 14.30 on Tuesday 21st March.
Bizarrely the scheme is recommended for approval in the final Committee Report (you can download a copy here). So, despite objections from the Council’s own Landscape, Housing and Conservation experts (and our own Parish Council’s unanimous objection) – along with clear statements that many aspects of the development are in clear contravention of HDC’s own planning policies – the report concludes “on balance” for approval.
Several of HDC’s officers appear to have caved into pressure (from where? on high?) and diluted their earlier objections – this is particularly evident in the Strategic Planning team which had issued an objection to the earlier scheme but – presumably after “the applicant’s negotiations with the council“– has done a complete U-turn.
SPANGLE will be speaking at the full Planning Committee next week to put across the key arguments against the housing development – and remind Councillors of the many ways it contradicts and is at odds with written Planning Policy.
If you want to see Storrington’s future healthcare provision developed in the right place and in the right way, join us at 14.30 on Tuesday 21st March at HDC’s officers to Save The Glebe for future generations.
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