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Calderstones/Woolton Green Wedge - Appendix 4 GI2 – Calderstones/Woolton Green Wedge - Appendix 4 Detail from SHLAA 2018 – Map of Sites (CD38.2) Site LA Reference 5150 – Allerton Priory site with planning permission (also referred to as ‘A15’). Site LA Reference 5587 – 2.32 ha site Anticipated to yield 68 dwellings for delivery in the period 11 to 15 years. LOGS CIC / APEA CIC GI2 – Calderstones/Woolton Green Wedge - Appendix 5 Detail from the Sustainability Appraisal Appendices-1, Appendix 4 Maps (CD8.i) Map titled 'Alternative Residential Site Allocations Proposed by Landowners/Developers’ Site ‘A16’: owned by Liverpool City Council. Site ‘A3’: Playing Fields. Site ‘A1’: Woolton Manor land with planning permission. Site ‘A15’: Allerton priory land with planning permission. LOGS CIC / APEA CIC GI2 – Calderstones/Woolton Green Wedge - Appendix 6 LOGS CIC / APEA CIC GI2 – Calderstones/Woolton Green Wedge - Appendix 7 In statements made by the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, published in the local press and online on 18 January 2019 and confirmed by him on BBC Radio Merseyside on 19 January 2019, that the housing scheme is “dead”. Liverpool Echo video interview with Mayor Joe Anderson Online report by Liam Thorp Updated 14:42, 18 JAN 2019: This is how Joe Anderson reacted to Liverpool Council's dramatic defeat over Calderstones park. We spoke to the Mayor of Liverpool after a humbling judgement from the High Court Mayor Joe Anderson has responded to his council's dramatic defeat over Calderstones Park by stating that the housing scheme he had backed in the area 'is dead'. The city mayor confirmed that any plans to build on an area of the Harthill Estate would now not happen - and said he would now work to enshrine the area as part of the south Liverpool park to avoid any future development plans. This morning it was revealed that High Court judge Mr Justice Kerr had found in favour of those campaigning against the council's plans to allow Redrow to build 51 houses on the land - and quashed two planning applications that had been granted by the authority's planning committee. Speaking to the ECHO today, Mayor Anderson said he fully accepts the decision and said the housing scheme is now dead. He added: "What the Judicial Review does is make it absolutely clear that the city council was wrong, the applications were wrong - we accept that and I want to assure people that from my point of view, there will be no building on it. "And we will go further than that, we are going to make sure that the land itself is going to be enshrined, by us, to be included in the park. The judgement may well say that is the case but we will make sure it is enshrined legally into the park." LOGS CIC / APEA CIC Friends of Harthill and Calderstones Park People’s Postcode Lottery award £20k to create Nature Reserve on the site of Liverpool’s world-famous Botanic Gardens. Players of People’s Postcode Lottery have awarded £20,000 to help create a nature reserve on the site of the Harthill Botanic Gardens in Calderstones Park. The funding comes from Postcode Local Trust, a grant giving charity funded by the lottery players. The site was at the centre of a major campaign over the now-abandoned plans to build luxury homes. The grant will transform the site, which became a Council Depot at Calderstones Park after the glasshouses closed. A fenced area of about 4 acres will become a publicly accessible part of the park. Native trees will be planted, underplanted with bulbs and a wildflower meadow will be established. They will be planted on a diverse range of lime based products laid on top of Biochar, resulting in carbon capture to combat climate change and improve biodiversity. An area of the old depot site will be left to “wild“ to encourage wildlife. Help in preparing the bid was given by The Mersey Forest, The Conservation Volunteers and Richard Scott, Director of the National Wildflower Centre based at the Eden Project. Charity Number 512692 Website http://friendsharthillandcalderstonespark.btck.co.uk/ Email [email protected] Page 1 The long-running Friends group was set up with the aim of conserving and enhancing Harthill and Calderstones Park’s environment and its appeal to the general public. Over 54,000 people signed a petition to show opposition to the housing plan. Following the scrapping of the housing project, the Friends have led a team of volunteers on a clean-up operation as part of its ambitious plans to open the site to park users. A spokesperson for the Friends' Group said: "This is a tremendous boost from People’s Postcode Lottery that will give our ambitious proposals for the site a really great start. What has shone through brightly over the past few years has been the tremendous love and affection people have for Calderstones Park. It is just great to think people will soon have access to a corner of the park closed off to them for many years. Our thanks to players of the lottery who have made this possible." Charity Number 512692 Website http://friendsharthillandcalderstonespark.btck.co.uk/ Email [email protected] Page 2 Appeal Decisions Site visit made on 15 January 2020 by John Braithwaite BSc(Arch) BArch(Hons) RIBA MRTPI an Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Decision date: 27th February 2020 Appeal Ref: APP/Z4310/W/19/3233393 Land to west of Woolton Manor, East of Hillfoot Road, Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside L25 7TB • The appeal is made under section 78 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (the Act) against a failure to give notice within the prescribed period of a decision on an application for planning permission. • The appeal is made by Rushton Properties Ltd against Liverpool City Council. • The application Ref 19F/0025 is dated 19 December 2018. • The development proposed is the erection of 10 single storey/partly subterranean detached 4/5 bedroom executive family dwelling houses, each with an integral double garage and driveway, private accessible green roofs and sunken gardens, and associated hard and soft landscaping (including boundary treatment, external lighting and CCTV apparatus); the erection of a warden’s bungalow with ancillary office to facilitate 24 hour security/site management; the erection of a secure warden’s store for the storage of ground maintenance equipment/materials; the reconstruction of the northern former convalescent shelter to create a bat roost; the erection of a contemporary shelter to replace the former (collapsed) convalescent shelter to the south; and the demolition/removal of the decrepit central timber ‘shelter’, the brick former ‘piggery’ structure, the separate brick outbuilding, tennis court, foundation walls of former greenhouse, and third brick structure (a possible former water fountain). Appeal Ref: APP/Z4310/Y/19/3233407 Land to west of Woolton Manor, East of Hillfoot Road, Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside L25 7TB • The appeal is made under section 20 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (the LBCA Act) against a failure to give notice within the prescribed period of a decision on an application for listed building consent. • The appeal is made by Rushton Properties Ltd against Liverpool City Council. • The application Ref 19L/0026 is dated 19 December 2018. • The works proposed are the reconstruction of the northern former convalescent shelter to form a bat roost; the demolition/removal of the decrepit central timber ‘shelter’, the brick former ‘piggery’ structure, the separate brick outbuilding, tennis court, foundation walls of former greenhouse, and third brick structure (a possible former water fountain); the repair and restoration of paths associated with the historic convalescent use of the site; the creation of a new 1.0 metre wide pedestrian/cyclist access gate in the boundary wall along Allerton Road; and the repair/restoration of boundary walls and fences. Decision Appeal Ref: APP/Z4310/W/19/3233393 1. The appeal is allowed and planning permission is granted for ‘the erection of 9 single storey/partly subterranean detached 4/5 bedroom executive family dwelling houses, each with an integral double garage and driveway, private accessible green https://www.gov.uk/planning-inspectorate Appeal Decisions APP/Z4310/W/19/3233393 and APP/Z4310/Y/19/3233407 roofs and sunken gardens, and associated hard and soft landscaping (including boundary treatment, external lighting and CCTV apparatus); the erection of a warden’s bungalow with ancillary office to facilitate 24 hour security/site management; the erection of a secure warden’s store for the storage of ground maintenance equipment/materials; the reconstruction of the northern former convalescent shelter to create a bat roost; the erection of a contemporary shelter to replace the former (collapsed) convalescent shelter to the south; and the demolition/removal of the decrepit central timber ‘shelter’, the brick former ‘piggery’ structure, the separate brick outbuilding, tennis court, foundation walls of former greenhouse, and third brick structure (a possible former water fountain)’ at land to west of Woolton Manor, East of Hillfoot Road, Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside in accordance with the terms of the application Ref 19F/0025, dated 19 December 2018, subject to the conditions in a schedule attached to this Decision. Appeal Ref: APP/Z4310/Y/19/3233407 2. The appeal is allowed and listed building consent is granted for ‘the reconstruction of the northern former convalescent shelter to form a bat roost; the demolition/removal of the decrepit central timber ‘shelter’, the brick former ‘piggery’ structure, the separate brick outbuilding, tennis court, foundation walls of former greenhouse, and third brick structure (a possible former water fountain); the repair and restoration of paths associated with the historic convalescent use of the site; the creation of a new 1.0 metre wide pedestrian/cyclist access gate in the boundary wall along Allerton Road; and the repair/restoration of boundary walls and fences’ at land to west of Woolton Manor, East of Hillfoot Road, Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside in accordance with the terms of the application Ref 19L/0026, dated 19 December 2018, subject to the conditions in a schedule attached to this Decision.
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