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17th
May 2011 (pdf
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Alistair Day, the Principal
Planning Officer from Colchester Borough Council, has recommended REFUSAL for
the application. You can view his lengthy and extremely detailed report: click
here, then choose 'Planning Committee Agenda 26/5/2011'
Follow-up
Letters - 21st April 2011 (pdf
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As
of 21st April, provisional totals of follow-up letters received by
CBC and posted on their website were: Support of the Application 17, Objections
to the Application 205.
Last week the ECS and the EADT both ran stories about the newts at Horkesley Park. Here’s the full picture for anyone who wants to read it.
In the past couple of months CBC have received a number of further documents from Buntings elaborating on their proposals. The documents can be seen on the CBC website. We encourage everyone to view these new materials and form their own view on the merits of what is now said in support of the application.
The
date has now been set for the Planning Committee Meeting to decide
Horkesley Park - 25th March 2011 (pdf
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May
26th - Colchester Town Hall - 6.00pm
Put
the date in your diary and be there to demonstrate your opposition!
Congratulations
to Dedham Vale on the receipt of a £1,000,000 heritage lottery
grant - 27th March 2010 (pdf 476Kb)
As
reported in the EADT: Beauty spot valley gets £1m windfall
What a really
intelligent and valuable use for lottery
money, to spread it through 62 different projects down the length of
the valley where it will be of direct benefit to the landscape, the
wildlife
and the people who live here!
How
very different this is from the Horkesley Park project. The Bunting’s
giant development would attempt to centralise ersatz versions of all
these activities, for the purpose of money-making rather than for the
valley and the community, at a single artificially created site.
SVAG employed its own independent consultants to help in the preparation of this document. Our conclusion is that the Application is defective on so many grounds that it should be withdrawn and abandoned by Bunting and Sons before any more public resources are wasted on its evaluation.
Please read for yourselves the full text of the document. See Horkesley Park Key Issues page.
Essex County Standard Letters feature: the great Horkesley Park debate.
"Constable Country speaks for itself", read some of the car stickers, and indeed it did. To SAY NO TO HORKESLEY PARK, the by-now-familiar posters, were added other slogans. The Stour Valley Action Group rally brought together people of all ages and types from the length of the valley; many came with banners, handmade signs, and balloons, putting an element of carnival into the protest.
They write, "The National Trust considers that although the visitor numbers have been substantially reduced in this proposal compared to the last one, the application should still be rejected as being completely out of scale and of an inappropriate nature and location. It would also be just as likely to have the potential to irreparably damage the tourist locations within the Dedham Vale which the National Trust and partners have striven so long and hard to cherish."
The front page of the East Anglian Daily Times on Monday 16 March reported Mr Stephen Bunting's assertion that SVAG had distributed "misleading information". SVAG replies that their views are based on the reading and analysis of Buntings' own documentation, and are matters of opinion and judgement.
As Buntings realise their petition, which was generated at their Suffolk Punch roadshows during 2007/8 and based on thier previous planning application, is invalid they are sending previous signatories a flyer and prepaid envelope hoping they will give their support to the new application.
Submission of the new planning application sparked a wave of letters to the Essex County Standard.
Bid
for new heritage park is resurrected - 24 February 2009 (pdf 208Kb)
A new Horkesley Park proposal was launched on Thursday 19 February with a great
fanfare in the press. Editorial comment in Friday's Essex County Standard asked
the crucial question: 'This project, if given permission, will change Great
Horkesley and the surrounding villages forever. The question is, for better or
worse?'
Doubts
Surround Buntings' Claims of Support - 29 June 2007 (pdf )
The story of Buntings' clams of public support sparked a vocal response and
a surge of letters to the papers.
A concerned local resident, and professional art historian, writes to the East Anglian Daily Times with inside knowledge on the subject of the art ' outstation' which Buntings advertise as one of the major cultural elements of Horkesley Park.
Who
Owns Constable's Country? - 18 May 2007 (pdf
298Kb)
Professor Michael Rosenthal of Warwick University delivered a hard hitting
lecture in
aid of the Stour Valley Action Group to a packed Nayland Village Hall.
He said the word 'heritage' in this day had come to mean something that
was fake, dishonest, vacuous, and to do with retail, moneymaking and
'a world that never was'.
Buntingland
to be relaunched in May- 6th April 2007 (pdf
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Buntings announce that they will be holding an extensive series of
promotional events to publicise their venture once again with 'show
rounds' at the site and 'roadshows' at other locations around the
county.
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