New Housing Development in Yateley
Has the last new house already been built in Yateley?
Development in Villages
18. Some villages have reached the limit of their natural growth, but in others, useful provision for housing can be found by infilling on sites within the village itself and by modest expansion where this is consistent with the constraints set out in paragraph 17.
17. Expansion of a town into the surrounding countryside is objectionable on planning grounds if it creates ribbons or isolated pockets of development or reverses accepted policies for separating villages from towns, or if it conflicts with national policies for the protection of the environment such as those safeguarding green belts, national parks, good farming land, areas of outstanding natural beauty or high landscape value, or for nature conservation, or those relating to flood plains, run off problems, proximity to industry or noise, water or air pollution. Such an objection would normally rule out development unless the circumstances of the case are such that there is an exceptional need to make land available for housing.
The above paragraphs are taken from Annex A of Circular 22/80, Development Control - Policy and Practice published as government policy on 28 Nov 1980. The Yateley Society was inaugurated as a Civic Trust 6 weeks later, and adopted those two paragraphs from Circular 22/80 as its guiding policy on new development. For the last 25 years the arguments have not been about 'exceptional need', they have been about where to find sites to build housing allocations imposed from above by successive national governments. In the 1980s and 1990s Yateley took its full share: Monteagle Park, of about 500 new houses, being the largest development.
In 1979 the EEC issued Council Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of Wild Birds. In the Society's 25th anniversary year, the two paragraphs of Circular 22/80 are still relevant, and still guiding the Society. The 1979 Birds Directive is having a profound impact on whether any new housing development (even a single house) will ever be built in Yateley in the future, putting the current emphasis in Yateley on the phrase for nature conservation
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Comments (4)
Admin said
at 1:05 pm on May 22, 2006
Feedback 060006: (at May Fayre 2006) Very worried about more housing as it will mean a lot more cars, more scholls and Yateley is only a village
Admin said
at 1:07 pm on May 22, 2006
Feedback 060008: (at May Fayre 2006) Too much “back garden” housing taking place. I would like to see help with parking problems – more interests taking place in Yateley on Sundays.
Admin said
at 2:17 pm on May 22, 2006
Feedback 060009 (by email) 4th part: Actually, there is a 4th thing - no more housing - the roads can't cope
already. Have you tried getting out of Yateley in the morning rush?!
Admin said
at 2:22 pm on May 22, 2006
Response to above from PJT: Your fourth wish is to stop new development in Yateley. Please have a look at [HousingDevelopment|New Housing Development] (on the SideBar). No major new housing development has been the Yateley Society's policy since its formation in 1981 -- not on a NIMBY basis (the term was not even invented then) but by calling for successive governments to abide by Acts of Parliament and their own national planning policies. It may be that the Special Protection Area(the European Directive setting up SPAs has been around since 1979) will
completely halt large scale new development in Yateley. You also have the chance right now to send in an objection to the [SeeraPlans|Draft South East Plan]
which is calling for 3,900 new houses in northern Hart.
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