John Fareham and
John Abbott confirm that the open land behind Goddard Avenue is to remain as
open land in the draft of the Council’s revised City Plan to be submitted to
the Secretary of State for approval.
A report submitted
to the November meeting of the Planning Committee – and to other committees as
well – confirms that although representations were submitted asking for several
pieces of open land to be reclassified as housing land, it was decided not to take
these ideas on board. The draft City Plan will thus go off to the Secretary of
State for approval and, if it gets the thumbs up, the Council will then have a
good excuse to tell any developers with designs on these patches of land that
approving their applications would be directly contrary to the City Plan. Long-term readers of CONTACT! who remember
the previous attempt to build houses on this land may suspect that we would
derive pleasure from being allowed to do precisely that. We of course could not
possibly comment.
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