The Campden Blog

Stratford’s planning committee met last night at Stratford Town Hall (Sheep Street) to decide on St Modwen’s ‘Masterplan’ planning proposal at Long Marston. The whole hybrid proposal has been recommended en bloc for approval by the planning officers of Stratford District Council. St Modwen will go ahead with this proposal if the Ecotown does not get government approval (decision on this still with the Housing Minister).

The joint parish working group that have been looking into the proposal are against it, particularly the proposed 500 houses (in addition to the 300 holiday homes, employment and leisure sections) which we feel are unsustainable and contrary to policy CTY18. Joan Matthews (Long Marston) and Mike Walsby (Quinton) plus Mike Brain (Ward Member) and Andy Murphy (Stansgate Planning) will all be speaking against the proposal.

What are your thoughts on this matter?…How will this affect/advantage to Campden?

The Chipping Campden Area Partnership was formed in 2004 to write a community plan for our town identifying priorities for the future.  “The Way Forward” is now nearing completion.  The Action Plan will be published in its final form once you, the members of the local community, have had the opportunity to comment. We want to ensure that the final action plan reflects the needs of the whole community. 

A Need for Local Housing

If a town of Campden’s size is not to go the way of many of our villages in rural areas, then there needs to be more of a commitment for providing local housing for young people. The only way that this can be achieved is for Campden to give up some of it’s precious an yes beautiful surrounding countryside to allow the development of affordable housing which should be specifically built for young people only. Yes, this will reduce some of our beautiful surroundings, however I believe that what makes Campden such a wonderful place is that at the moment we still has a wonderful local community spirit and in order to maintain this we will need to sacrifice some of it’s natural beauty.

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