Strategic Planning Meeting
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Strategic Planning Meeting Stoke St Mary Parish Council Mon 21st Oct 2019 - 7:45pm Agenda 1. Introduction – Vic Freir (SSMPC Chairman) 2. Taylor Wimpey Land – Rob Hossell (SSMPC) 3. Questions for the Plan – Colin Fisher (SSMPC) 4. The Local Plan – Cllr Mike Rigby – (SW&T Planning portfolio) 5. Q & A session 6. Close and thanks – Vic Freir Garden Town not By-pass Town @TauntonGardenTown Crown Estate Land - LOT 1 • Stoke St Mary / Neroche Parishes • Sold to Taylor Wimpey for £12.5M – Dec 2018 – No overage clause • 1,143.73 Acres = £11,000/acre, say 10,000+ houses long term potential • Land with planning permission - £600,000/acre = £700M Taylor Wimpey – Highways England Meeting 11 Feb 19 – Freedom of Information Request Land south of Taunton – Site for 1,000 Units (houses) 5/6,000 new community Page 1 Taylor Wimpey – Highways England Meeting 11 Feb 19 – Freedom of Information (FOI) Request Land south of Taunton Site for 1,000 Units (houses) 5/6,000 new community TD (Taunton Deane) recognises scale of Development East of Motorway Clearly discussions between Taylor Wimpey and Taunton Deane (TD) in Jan/Feb 2019 However FOI Request confirms TD meeting notes have DISAPPEARED!! Page 2 Taylor Wimpey – Garden Town Consultation Submission Taylor Wimpey statements Nexus 25 (April 19) – FOI request • “TW have a land interest on land to the south east of Junction 25 of the M5 around the hamlet of Haydon – see Haydon Site Location Plan” Lane • “We consider that the next logical point of growth for Taunton is to the east and beyond the M5 junction. Such development would compliment the strategic employment site known as Stoke Nexus 25 and deliver a Road comprehensively planned new community.” Site Location Plan J25 Land East Taunton N of M5 Settlement Nexus 25 Taylor Wimpey “Land Boundary Interest” overlaps Nexus 25 “Green Skirt (Recreation open space, Biodiversity, Haydon Lane and Flood Attenuation)” Taylor Wimpey “Land Interest” Extent of Taylor Wimpey “Land Interest” around Haydon, from their Garden Lot 1F Junction C Town submission April 2019 Shoreditch Road Lot 1E A358 Orange Option Lot 1D Stoke St Mary with Killams Jct rejected Parish West Hatch Lot 1C Parish Lot 1B Crown Estate Lot 1 (1A-1F)* Lot 1A sold to Taylor Wimpey in Dec 2018 (1,143.73 acres) Corfe Parish Neroche Parish (Orchard Portman) 1 Km Questions for the plan October 2019 An employment driven plan • Housing targets substantially in excess of national framework numbers for Taunton – 17,000 • Strategy needs • Underlying growth of population and/or economy • Changes in the structure of the Taunton economy Population growth • ONS projections not forecasts • 116,000 to 134,000 in 2040 • Equivalent to 8,130 new households • Strip out migration 1,200 new households • 17,000 households to be driven by creating employment Economic growth • Plan assumes 2.8%per annum to 2026 • Inspector said it was “optimistic but not unrealistic and had not been seriously challenged” • Why not? • 40 yrs 2.1% • 10 yrs 1.5% • South West slower than UK Economic development • Two sources • Organic growth of organisations • New ones coming in • Organic growth • Mainly public sector employment • Two commercial head offices Debenhams and WPA • Inward migration – build it and they will come • Well maybe – Nexus 25 and Hinkley Point • The only people who will come are commuters What next? • Repudiate this strategy explicitly • Abandon the 17,000 target • Work out a new, realistic, quality, employment strategy The Local Plan Cllr Mike Rigby SW&T Planning Portfolio .