Comment or question: Q229
| NDP-S017 - Woolhead/Bagley/Coote - Britten Close | |||
| Comment no.: | Q229 | Date: | 27/02/2014 14:22 |
| Comment by: | Anonymised | Post code: | NN9 6AB - Raunds Road |
| After all the comments I heard about the new proposed houses for the village being a variety of properties being of smaller nature suitable for Young families why are these three proposing to reduce their 'Family' sized house gardens into small boxes of land. It would be more beneficial to keep these as they are and move into one of the new build properties in the village assuming they do want to stay in the village. Why do people insist on back filling family sized plots? so for anyone wanting to buy in the get a family sized housed with a postage sized garden. Answer from land owners: We refer to the comments made by the anonymous resident from Raunds Road (Q207 and Q229). We would have thought the comments regarding the types of suggested dwellings and the size of gardens could apply equally to a significant number of the aspirational sites. We can only surmise that the very closeness of the resident's postcode to Britten Close has a bearing on this. We attended many of the meetings and would not agree that the provision of housing for young families was a 'major focus point'. It was raised. Our view was that although a worthy suggestion, we pointed out at our presentation that having all raised families, our children moved out of Chelveston into towns to be near work, friends and entertainment. Again, the comment about us moving in to any of the bungalows is inaccurate. One of us suggested that the idea appealed to them. We do not understand the remark about 'postage sized gardens'. The suggestion is for bungalows suitable for retirement and therefore without large gardens. The government has a target of building a minimum of 35 new dwellings per hectare and under these provisions it would have meant 9 dwellings as per our original proposal. Our proposal now is for 6 bungalows suitable for retirement. A small development offers many benefits to the village housing stock as set out in our proposition. |
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