N03 - The Grove School

Comment

Representation ID: 2230

Received: 08/02/2012

With care and sympathetic design this site could provide much needed housing provided the woodland does not form part of any development. A mix of well designed flats and houses would not be a detriment to the area. This site would provide a golden opportunity to create a well thought out and imaginative development of quality. This should be a residential development with NO commercial element included in the design.

Object

Representation ID: 2340

Received: 21/03/2012

The present school is serviced by a single small road which connects to Harley Shute road. My concern is that this road would be entirely insufficient for the increased traffic volume.

Secondly, it a beautiful area, with fields, fishing lake and reservoir, woodland, countryside etc. Carving it up and replacing it with housing or businesses would put a strain on the countryside and would be unfair on those living in the housing development west of the area "N03."

My suggestion is leave it as fields/walkways as per the proposal for the nearby landfill site

Object

Representation ID: 2591

Received: 27/04/2012

NO3 Grove School - Dog Kennel Wood - The entire west area of this site should not be developed in order to retain open space and woodland to Dog Kennel Wood.

Support

Representation ID: 2826

Received: 27/04/2012

support residential use but designed with an eye on high quality integration of landscape and architecture. 30 dwellings per hectare possibly too high if extensive apartment development is to be avoided

Object

Representation ID: 3019

Received: 10/04/2012

Infrastructure not adequate, more traffic, over populated, not enough water as it is, Ridge and Hastings cannot cope with any more traffic, schools, doctors, hospital shortage

Object

Representation ID: 3119

Received: 27/04/2012

The proposed possible net capacity of 240 is too high - it does not accord with policy in this document to have density compatible with the surrounding area. The map shows some 150+ dwellings in an area considerably larger than the site under consideration.

Comment

Representation ID: 3181

Received: 24/04/2012

Preserve playing fields and reassess for effect on local area of high density development

Comment

Representation ID: 3307

Received: 26/04/2012

Little Ridge-&-Ashdown and Filsham-&-Bulverhythe are closely located to the A21 and A259 respectively and have been targeted for significant amounts of residential and employment development. It is important therefore, that development within these areas come forward with associated sustainable transport infrastructure to reduce the need to travel by car and the impact on the SRN.

Should these sites be carried forward to the next consultation stage it will be necessary to show how their impact will be mitigated. This is also true with large development sites in Filsham-&-Bulverhythe which are likely to generate traffic on the A259 west of Bexhill.

Comment

Representation ID: 3355

Received: 26/04/2012

This site owned by the County Council could become available for development in Summer 2013. The timing of its release for development is dependent to completion of the new Academy.

Access to the site would need to make use of the existing access point in Darwell Close. As a result junction improvements at the Harley Shute Road & Darwell Close junction would need to be considered along with provision of a pedestrian crossing point over Harley Shute Road. The area is already well served by two bus routes which link the site to the Town Centre. The appeal of bus use could be enhanced by improving the local bus stops. Being in a Zone 4 area within the ESCC parking standards, adequate provision must be made on site for vehicle as well as cycle parking.

The overriding issue with this site would be capacity on the A259, Bexhill Road. The road is generally at capacity and is over capacity at peak times. The provision of the Bexhill & Hastings Link Road is therefore essential to allow this site to be developed.

This site would need to contribute towards the installation of bus priority measures on the A259, which are complimentary measures associated with the construction of the Bexhill Hastings Link Road.

Object

Representation ID: 3504

Received: 28/02/2012

much of the Grove School site (N03) is currently undeveloped since it comprises the current school playing area. Government advice in Annex B of PPS3 Housing is clear
that this part of the site should not be considered 'previously developed land'. Paragraph 36 of PPS3 states that "The priority for developnzent shotlld be previously developed land, in particular vacant and derelict sites and buildings". In accordance with this national advice, the development of Hastings Garden Centre, which contains built developlnent tllroughout the site, should be prioritised over developlnent of a partially developed site such as Grove School. Doubts also exist as to whether the latter site will become available over the Plan period.