Changes to School Catchments + Road Noise & Congestion + Property Flooding + Sewage Pollution

CHANGES TO SCHOOL CATCHMENTS + ROAD NOISE & CONGESTION + PROPERTY FLOODING + SEWAGE POLLUTION Save the East Renfrewshire Green Belt Poorly controlled green belt development at Maidenhill ? – Please have your say! East Renfrewshire Council is considering planning applications for 834 houses and flats (625 private and 209 affordable/social rented) on the productive farmland at Maidenhill Farm. There are a number of serious errors within the planning application. To protect our community please object now, ideally before 21 December 2016 . Speak-up now, so that our elected representatives are made aware of the background and are held accountable for their decisions.

Schools are too small and at risk of bussing of pupils - The proposed new schools are too small. There WILL Be changes in the Catchment Areas! The Council only proposes a total of 3 new primary classes/year (630 places). Newton Mearns Community Council estimated using council data, that up to 980 additional primary school places are needed (350 short). The Education Convener and deputy, have both stated that there will be no bussing of pupils. One Newton Mearns developer has already proposed to the Council that they would pay to bus children from Mearns to Barrhead and Neilston for up to two years. Crime and anti-social behaviour – A Police crime report states that they are concerned about the potential for crime and house breakins from the greenspace behind properties in Mearnskirk. Traffic Noise and Congestion - The traffic noise on most homes will be built at Maidenhill. of the proposed Maidenhill development site already Over-development - 750 homes was subject to breaches statutory UK Noise Levels, due to the M77 and statutory public consultation and statutory approval the Glasgow Southern Orbital (GSO) / ‘Eaglesham by both the Scottish Government and the Council and Bypass’ (A726). The developer proposes building a 5- adopted in the statutory Local Development Plan metre high barrier around the site to lower the noise. (LDP). The developers now propose 834 homes, some The reporter has just refused a development behind the on the strategic greenspace. Council officers knew Malletsheugh Inn stating this was unsightly. Experience before the statutory approvals that the developers at Newton Heights (by M77 Junction 4) shows that planned to build on this green network. Greenspace previous attempts at noise reduction have not worked. cannot be built on. The developers can’t now be The new development will further increase traffic on permitted to build on it. To do otherwise would the M77 by over 6%. The traffic assessment produced by invalidate the statutory consultation and approvals. the developers and the Council states that 750 Flooding and sewage pollution – Remember Cheviot Drive? How safe are our children? - The developers propose to build drainage basins behind Belhaven/ Kirklands Road and behind Kirklands Drive/Newton Court/Cheviot Drive. Residents are concerned that they may not be designed and checked properly and will risk flooding adjacent homes. Councillors have already approved a similar drainage scheme at Cheviot Drive. Contaminated flooding of properties in Cheviot Drive in 2015 Council planners promised that Cheviot Drive would be network cannot cope. It already spills unapproved protected from flooding for 200 years. Yet Cheviot Drive raw sewage within homes, into streets, gardens, has already been flooded three times in 2015. parks and watercourses during heavy rainfall. Council It is further proposed that the first 400 homes will officers know this. We believe that our health and be ‘temporarily’ connected to the existing Newton that of our children must not be put at risk for Mearns sewage network. But the current sewage developer’s profits. How to object overleaf.

Issued by www.savethegreenbelt.org Please register for the latest updates. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. CHANGES TO SCHOOL CATCHMENTS + ROAD NOISE & CONGESTION + PROPERTY FLOODING + SEWAGE POLLUTION ...... Details on how to object...... To view the Planning Application for yourself please visit: http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1580 select online planning service link, then search for 0712.

Please write or email a letter to the Council. Please send us a copy of your objection so that we can monitor the Council’s Handling Report to councillors. It is important that everyone in your household sends a separate and unique objection please, otherwise the council will count it as one objection. {Example letter template for you to use and adapt as you wish} {Your Name} {Your Address} {Your Postcode}

Head of Environment, Planning Property and Regeneration, 2 Spiersbridge, Spiersbridge Business Park, THORNLIEBANK, East Renfrewshire G46 8NG or email to [email protected] (Please forward a copy of your objection to [email protected])

{Date} Dear Sir, 2016/0712/TP - Residential development to include sites for affordable housing, primary school and religious facility, access, landscaping, SUDS and associated ancillary development (major)

{Introduce your objection with a sentence of your own explaining your feelings} {Use any of the following points that you agree with, in your own order of preference. Please rewrite them in your own words.}  I object as this site is productive farmland. Redundant brownfield sites should have been used for development instead.  I object that there will be insufficient primary school provision.  I object that the developer proposes to temporarily drain the first 400 houses via the existing sewage network. This will increase the illegal sewage already discharged onto the streets, residential gardens and parks, polluting watercourses throughout Newton Mearns.  I object to bussing of primary school children out of the district.  I request/demand that the greenspace in Mearnskirk is kept secure.  I object that the noise from the additional traffic on the M77 will further breach statutory noise thresholds. The development should be built with direct rail access.  I object as the traffic congestion on the M77 will exceed the developer’s traffic assessment and the maximum vehicle numbers set by Transport Scotland.  I object as the developers are proposing to build on strategic green space, protected as a green network within the Local Development Plan.  I object as the surface water design is inadequate and does not offer adequate protection for downstream properties.  I object that the developer is over-developing the site beyond the limit of 750 residential units. 750 was subject to a statutory public consultation, agreed through a statutory process with the Scottish Government and formally adopted in the Local Development Plan.  The Glasgow Southern Orbital (GSO) / Eaglesham Bypass (A726) has Protected Road status. I object that it should be included in the planning application area. Yours sincerely, {Please sign}

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