ePetition details

Tewkesbury Borough Council has failed to consider the human rights, opinions, mental health and physical welfare of residents of Ash Lane and Down Hatherley Lane in the application of planning decisions:
- it has failed to recognise the status of Ash Lane as a private road
- it has failed to differentiate between greenfield development and development amongst existing housing, which has to consider existing residents and infrastructure
- it has failed to make adequate provision for the management and removal of foul drainage and flood water
- it has allowed developers to adopt the least cost option of plugging into existing infrastructure rather than including infrastructure as part of any planning approval
- it has made no attempt to balance new build against the impact on the existing community.

The Neighbourhood Plan specifically excludes a settlement boundary for Down Hatherley. It is instead subject to piecemeal and unrestricted development. The strategy behind the piecemeal is not transparent although there are clearly long term plans behind much of the building.

The area is still trying to recover from the crisis over the Christmas period 2020 with flooded houses and backed up sewers. The water pumping station failed and Severn Trent were using tankers to pump out. In addition the A38 junction with Down Hatherley lane flooded over this period and the field that acts as a soak away for neighbouring fields was flooded. This is marked for development. If this field is built on, this water will flood into nearby homes.

This ePetition ran from 27/01/2021 to 19/02/2021 and has now finished.

165 people signed this ePetition.