Appendix 2 – Responses to Consultation on Neighbourhood Area Applications
(June – July 2015)
North Waltham
Comment
Cllr Golding
Officer response
Support the application providing the neighbourhood area only covers the parish of North
Waltham.
Support noted.
Cllr Taylor
Supports the application.
Support noted.
Mr Patrick Sweeney
With reference to the North Waltham Neighbourhood Development Plan Area, the
neighbourhood plan gives the opportunity for villagers a say in development. North
Waltham is ideally placed for a mixture of residential development. The previous
Inspector's report found there was a need for 30 low cost houses but despite this nothing
was developed.
North Waltham has a recently enlarged sewer system and the need to accommodate the
needs of the village and the new proposed hospital should be a part of the plan for
development of a mixed nature with the emphasis on density, design and open
spaces. Manor Farm has been developed as an industrial site and at the last enquiry a
proposal for residential development opposite the school and the adjoining livery yard were
Comments noted.
proposed.
It is important to sustain the existing services and to enhance the future benefits to the
village most of all to assist the housing needs of the local families children wishing to
remain in the village and to assist the existing 8000 people waiting on the housing list for
the area.
I think your council should endorse these needs which would take up less land than the
proposals by the Basingstoke Council to place a 15 hectare cemetery for Basingstoke in
North Waltham when they own the land at Manydown and there is an existing small
cemetery on the Newbury Road opposite the Rooksdown turning. It appears Basingstoke
planners give greater credence to the dead of Basingstoke being buried in North Waltham
than they do the living on the housing waiting list. The cemetery for Basingstoke should be
within the borough for all concerned which is not only common sense but good planning.
I hope the above comments are of some assistance and would remind you that the livery
yard which will be finishing at the end of the year is considered a brown field site and ideal
for development. I am sure sense and an adequate Neighbourhood plan will benefit the
village for the future generations to come.
Sherfield on Loddon
Comment
Cllr Robinson
Officer response
Supports the separation of Sherfield on Loddon from
Sherfield Park.
Support noted.