Bishop Alcock Road open land

John Fareham and John Abbott report that the Council have agreed terms with the prospective purchasers of the open land on Bishop Alcock Road. The Council’s Cabinet have decided to enter into an Agreement of Sale with a prospective purchaser who will be proposing to use part of the land, which falls into three parcels, for a residential care home and the rest of it to build houses. This will be subject of course to planning permission being granted and Wyke Area Committee have already expressed the hope that this is not another instance of “land banking”, the practice of buying land and then saving it till either it, or the planning permission you get to go with it, are worth a lot more money. It goes without saying that I for my part will take a particular, but of course wholly impartial, interest in the details of this application when it comes to Planning Committee.