Vehicle roads

The detailed  planning application (“reserved matters”) for the first phase of the West of Stonehouse development has been filed at SDC By the builders ‘Redrow’.

It is worth a look, as there are lots of detailed diagrams of the proposed layout, access roads etc.

The above diagrams give a flavour.  This  application is for 103 units including 15 ‘social’ rent and 16 ‘affordable’ rent units.  They are virtually all 2-storey buildings (with single story garages in front), with just the two dwellings at the very top centre  of the diagram being described as 2.5 stories.

The threatened vehicular access onto Nupend lane has been removed, as mentioned previously.

The SDC Local Plan (p58) describes the overall development as  ‘an urban extension to Stonehouse’.  There is no mention in the application for this phase  of any  improved  access to Stonehouse, nor any new ‘facilities’.  The Design and Access document remarks  that the new houses are within walking/cycling  distance of Churchend (…and therefore our school….).

Completely missing is the agreed  ‘structural landscape buffer’ between this part of the  development and the existing Westend houses at the junction of Grove Lane and Nupend Lane.    The Stroud Local Plan and our Neighbourhood Development Plan require structural landscape buffers to protect the distinct identity of each of the hamlets.  This was specifically added to the Approved Revised Area Masterplan  in December 2016.

To see the application plans in detail, and/or make comments go to

www.stroud.gov.uk/apps/planning  and search for application ref   S.17/0095/REM

   or click here