Bath and North East Somerset Council still vague on homes
Exactly how many new homes will be built in the Bath area in the next 15 years is still unclear despite £100,000 being spent on further research.
An update report by Bath and North East Somerset Council does not reveal any crucial detail about where new houses might be built or how many should be built.
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Councillor Tim Ball
The report, published early this month, outlines the parts of the council's planning blue print, the core strategy, it is reviewing including land supply, the need for traveller pitches, planning policy for The Rec and whether there should be a requirement for 35 per cent affordable housing in all developments.
The core strategy was sent back to the drawing board last summer after a Government inspector advised it should be rewritten.
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The inspector criticised the council's projection of 11,000 new homes by 2026 and said the authority might have to consider building on the green belt.
However, Councillor Tim Ball (Lib Dem, Twerton), cabinet member for housing and planning, said work was progressing and a full council report would be available by March.
He said: "It's currently going through the council's working parties to establish housing numbers and housing requirements."
9 Comments
by mhelenmary
Sunday, February 03 2013, 8:43AM
“The subject of housing is I feel, not a political issue. If you have poor housing, it most certainly makes your life uncomfortable. Cold, damp, expensive to heat, this will have to change in the future. It also effects your health.
If we build, the present situation on the economy will be improved, this is reason I feel it is more than politics. Regeneration and employment have to be seriously considered.
We have some estates that could do with a regeneration, and maybe even rebuild. Housing, is the hope for many in the future so, they can improve the quality of their lives.
We all can't agree, that is a fact of life, we all see things differently, I feel that unless we start to see things in a different light, then, things stay the same.”
by Imp-Act
Friday, February 01 2013, 5:09PM
“VAGUE! This about sums up BaNES!”
by honeybunny55
Friday, February 01 2013, 4:41PM
“Would you buy a used car from this man??”
by Viscount_V
Friday, February 01 2013, 3:45PM
“The whole housing strategy in B&NES has been a bodge from start to finish. Our council is run by a bunch of anti dog poo fanatics with very scant evidence of the expertise or experience in the field/role they were allotted by their chums.”
by Dave_Weston
Friday, February 01 2013, 3:12PM
“Now now, looks aren't everything. He can't be that vague as he and his wife are trousering a very nice £30k per year between them in councillors allowances - theres a plan there somewhere!
Back on topic the real problem is that these deliberations are going on in secret, will be bounced onto the electorate in March/April, and then without any time for consultation will be straight off to the Planning Inspector for the Core Strategy review. Whatever your view on NIMBY's and/or countryside preservationists vs the need for housing, that haste will leave some people with no real way of being consulted over what might be about to happen in their community. Bodge job springs to mind!”
by TeabagTerry
Friday, February 01 2013, 3:08PM
“Sounds about right. £100,000 spent by BANES, nothing to show for it.”
by highspeeder
Friday, February 01 2013, 12:42PM
“ludwgvan...................love it! I wouldn't trust Councillor Ball the job of building Lego houses.”
by ludwigvan
Friday, February 01 2013, 11:34AM
“They say a picture paints a thousand words. He really is the personification of "vague" isn't he?”
by tomsjan
Friday, February 01 2013, 11:15AM
“Bath and North East Somerset Council still vague on homes
Only homes??”