27 SURFACE WATER - WD/2015/0090/MAO

  SHIT CREEK LIME CROSS DEVELOPMENT LATIMER UP TO 70 HOUSES

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FOUL WATER MANAGEMENT - The other side (south) of Lime Park there is a sewage treatment plant that serves Chapel Row and Church Road residents but has too small a capacity to be considered for the extra 70 houses in Herstmonceux. This picture shows a JCB excavating near the treatment plant that you can see in the background in this photograph.

WD/2015/0090/MAO - CONDITION 27 SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE

27. No development shall take place until full details of a surface water drainage scheme, based on the sustainable drainage principles of the concept plan associated with the outline planning permission, have been submitted to and approved in writing by the Local Planning Authority. The surface water drainage scheme should be confirmed as deliverable by an assessment of the site’s potential for disposing of surface water by means of a sustainable drainage system. The submitted details shall, among standard
details, include the following:

(i) provide information about the design storm period and intensity, the method employed to delay and control the surface water discharged from the site and the measures taken to prevent pollution of the receiving groundwater and/or surface water.

(ii) be supported by a site investigation which incorporates ground water monitoring, preferably in winter, and soakage tests undertaken in accordance to BRE365 when infiltration is proposed.

(iii) provide a management and maintenance plan for the development which shall include the arrangements for adoption by any public authority or statutory undertaker and/or the other arrangements to secure the operation of the scheme throughout its lifetime

(iv) provide a programme for the implementation of the scheme having regard to the need to provide appropriate surface water attenuation prior to first occupation of any phase.

The submitted details shall include the results of an examination of the underlying geology and the monitoring of the winter groundwater levels in the area be undertaken in site specific test pits and that any soakaways achieve a 1.0 metre separation between these groundwater levels and the base of the soakaway.

NOTE: Attention should be given to non-statutory technical standards for sustainable drainage systems and the total costs of implementing the drainage scheme, that is design, construction and maintenance costs.

REASON: To reduce the risk of flooding, both on and off site, to improve and protect the water quality and improve habitat and amenity having regard to SPO12, SPO13 and WCS14 to the Wealden Core Strategy Local Plan 2013, Saved Policy CS2 of the adopted Wealden Local Plan 1998, coupled with the requirements of paragraph 103 and 109 of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012. With regard to Regulation 35 of the Development Management Procedure Order 2015, it is essential to avoid increasing the risk of off-site flooding, that the condition adopts the pre-commencement format.

LATIMER, THAKEHAM, CLARION (GROUP) - LIST OF PERSONS INVOLVED IN THE DEVELOPMENT

Peter Rawlinson - Gleeson Strategic Land

Ben Rainbow - Arboricultural & Biodiversity Officer

Steve Tuhey - Managing Director, Thakeham Client

Richard White, Director of Land and Planning at Latimer & Clarion Housing Group

LATIMER DEVELOPMENTS - Previously: William Sutton Developments Limited

Christopher John Hatfield

Ruth Margaret Cooke

David Simon Fordham

Austen Barry Reid

Rupert Owen Sebag-Montefiore

Mark Christopher Rogers

David Anthony Lewis

Michelle Reynolds

Southern Water - Nick Claxton Team Manager – Flood Risk Management & Revai Kinsella, Principal Drainage Officer

WATER CONTAMINATION - If houses are built on the hill that supplies the last surviving well in Herstmonceux, all of those who presently enjoy a sustainable water supply are likely to be poisoned by pesticides from a number of the gardens of the proposed housing - at the moment that looks like being 28 units positioned directly above and in the groundwater soakage line of fire. In addition, where the hard standings of the proposed 70 houses are to be gully drained to a point lower than the twin wells, rainwater soakage that supplies the wells will be diverted away potentially starving the wells of water, save that from the garden areas that are impossible to gully. The amusing cartoon above portrays the situation that perhaps the developers: Clarion, Latimer and Thakeham were not aware of, when they bought into a situation that they should have been able to rely on.

Unfortunately, the council concerned and the advisers to the original applicants appear to have been less diligent than they might have been in the rush to profit from a windfall situation. The question that is probably on your lips is: "Was that an oversight, or was it deliberate"?

Another problem that is rearing it's head with many developments is that corporations are building what they want to build without constructing the affordable unit quotient or making improvement to drainage and access roads that some council's have been kind enough to overlook at the grant stage with a promise from developers to overcome, when in fact those developers simply vanish without trace, leaving nobody to pick up the tab. In other words development is never completed to a stage where flooding and other contamination measures are safe.

At the other end of the proposed housing plan, the runoff via private ponds will lead to flooding, according to the Pevensey & Cuckmere Water Level Management Board. That is likely to see sewage surface from drains, as happens at the moment in and around Windmill Hill.

WD/2015/0090/ HERSTMONCEUX VILLAGE CONDITIONS A - Z INDEX

WD/2015/0090/MAO - GLEESON DEVELOPMENTS LTD

This application is not only contrary to Wealden's Local Plan, but is considered by many to be downright dangerous without the appropriate visibility splay. The A271 is a narrow country road that is already overloaded - with many traffic jams in the village high street causing motorists serious delays on occasion. The increase in traffic from a dense residential development at this location is nothing short of madness.

BRITAIN'S ARE (FOR THE MOST PART) SLAVES, CONTRARY TO THE POPULAR ANTHEM

The houses proposed are not eco friendly, have no charging points for electric vehicles and no energy generation or heat capture devices. They are more of the same energy gobbling houses that fat-cat builders love renting at inflated prices to new families to make them financial slaves, because that is all they (appear) to understand. We await comment on this and other matters from the Clarion Housing Group Limited, Thakekam Homes Limited and Latimer Developments Limited all partners to this proposal. It is yet to be confirmed just who is doing what and when and we look forward to receiving further information.

The case officer is Claire Turner. The permission was signed off by Kelvin Williams, now due to retire in 2019 with Christopher Bending taking over as Head of Planning and Environmental services in 2018.