Recipient: Cllr David Bretherton, Cllr David Rouane, Cllr Ian Snowdon, Ccllr Celia Wilson, Ccllr Peter Dragonetti, Ccllr Ken Arlett, Ccllr Sarah Gray, Ccllr Kate Gregory, Ccllr Lorraine Hillier, Ccllr George ... Letter: Greetings, Thames Farm, Reading Road Lower Shiplake, OXON Dear Recipients of this emailed petition, I am not sure to what extent you are familiar with the issues, but any one of you has the ability to make a difference to what is a wholly unacceptable situation to the 1,000+LOCAL signatories of this petition who live in and around Lower Shiplake. Our village is maybe 500 houses and so you will appreciate that we are all hugely concerned about the potential that Taylor Wimpey's site may have to exacerbate flooding that already takes place regularly in the village. The facts are that Taylor Wimpey having obtained planning on appeal in 2017, has now used a particular process to get their full details (reserved matters) approved. This process was their choice and is a process where normally public consultation CANNOT occur. This was the wrong process since this actually was such a massive variation to the original proposals. SODC was forced to resile from making a determination that was due to happen on 23 October solely because of the 150 letters of objection that were sent in by residents. Residents were not consulted at all. They found out what was going on and stopped this ridiculously undemocratic process when approval was about to be given. In fact, Taylor Wimpey had not even submitted a flood risk assessment with their application and SODC were still on the verge of approving it! This is not democracy nor the planning system working as it should! This is the covert use of technicalities to maintain a very low profile and circumvent consultation and scrutiny. As a public company who says they will treat neighbours as they themselves would wish to be treated, Taylor Wimpey should be ashamed of themselves and remove these statements from their CSR policies. What's more, SODC knew perfectly well that sinkholes had been found on-site and that the ground was poor and yet this was kept very quiet by them. Officers took it upon themselves to approve a variation to the Planning Permission that allowed works to commence even though the drainage solution had not been approved and when it was well known that a new radical solution to the drainage issue was going to be presented. This is unforgivable and shows a major bias in favour of the developer. Both that variation of the consent allowing the roadworks to happen early and the drainage changes are very significant and major changes. The drainage issue, in particular, could make this site impossible to develop, and the variation approval should never have been given particularly when no external parties were even made aware of the application. That variation although registered as a new Application, had its 'papers' buried with the original application details back in the 2016 files. Thus the application had zero visibility/transparency and could not be found unless you specifically knew it existed. The current drainage proposals should be the subject of a proper application to vary the scheme as should the variation given to build the road works. These matters are very material matters, and cannot be dealt with behind closed doors. The variation approval should be revoked immediately, and the new drainage scheme should be withdrawn and re-submitted as a proper material variation application so that everyone may consider and comment upon the proposals, not least the Secretary of State who originally approved this hugely flawed site for development before these facts were known. It is debatable whether this site would ever have received a planning consent had the true circumstances of the land been known, but now that we do know, the whole matter should be fully and properly scrutinised. Alternatively, apart from financial loss, there is nothing preventing Taylor Wimpey from reducing the size and density of their scheme to one that will not cause such major harm to the environment and potentially exacerbate flooding in a remote location away from their site. Normally a developer would be expected to contain their SW issues on their own site and discharge it at Greenfield rates rather than pumping it miles away to a different catchment area which already is liable to flood frequently. Please please please stop this unacceptable behaviour and give this proposal the opportunity to be scrutinised by all parties in a normal and timely fashion Signatures Name Location Date Peter Boros Wokingham, England, UK 2020-11-04 Susan Mann Wokingham, UK 2020-11-04 Vivien Pheasant Henley-on-Thames, UK 2020-11-04 Graeme Radford Reading, UK 2020-11-05 Stephen Seabury Lower Shiplake, UK 2020-11-05 aanya h Borehamwood, UK 2020-11-05 Dorinda Fisher Motherwell, UK 2020-11-05 Talia Meyer Ripley, UK 2020-11-05 Michelle Keen UK 2020-11-05 Blissel Jayme Ipswich, UK 2020-11-05 Henry Shepherd cambridge, UK 2020-11-05 Ruchard Taylor Cardiff, UK 2020-11-05 Maggie Stead Leeds, UK 2020-11-05 Jonathan Allan Peterborough, UK 2020-11-05 Coleen Thomas London, England, UK 2020-11-05 Mike Crook Lower Shiplake, UK 2020-11-05 Joshua Curphey Peterborough, UK 2020-11-05 Kate Harvey Shiplake, UK 2020-11-05 GARY HARVEY LOWER SHIPLAKE HENLEY ON 2020-11-05 THAMES, UK Barry Dyer Henley on Thames, UK 2020-11-06 Name Location Date Russell Seager Shiplake, UK 2020-11-06 Daniel Blumire Reading, UK 2020-11-06 Barrie Jones Wokingham, UK 2020-11-06 Lucy Roy Reading, UK 2020-11-06 Mike Moody Wokingham, UK 2020-11-06 christian yates Mayfair, UK 2020-11-06 Wendy Nicholson Lower Shiplake, UK 2020-11-06 Sara Morse Shiplake, England, UK 2020-11-06 Nathalie McClure Shiplake, UK 2020-11-06 Michael Ryan Reading, UK 2020-11-06 Vicky Rymer Barnsley, UK 2020-11-06 Guy van zwanenberg Evesham, UK 2020-11-06 stephen morrison falkik, UK 2020-11-06 Sandra Blewitt Shipston on Stour, UK 2020-11-06 gillian whitty Oxford, England, UK 2020-11-06 Ace Watts Bradford, UK 2020-11-06 Anne McGuinness Sheffield, UK 2020-11-06 Natalia Sawicka Barnsley, UK 2020-11-06 Su BUCKLEY Liverpool, UK 2020-11-06 sue smedley Devon, UK 2020-11-06 Victoria Parr Ashtead, UK 2020-11-06 Sam Butler London, England, UK 2020-11-06 Name Location Date Rita Ball Birmingham, UK 2020-11-06 Wendy Robinson Hull, UK 2020-11-06 Susan Thorogood Romford, UK 2020-11-06 Maria Kelly-Anderson March, UK 2020-11-06 Edward Fuentes Lambeth, UK 2020-11-06 Veronica H London, UK 2020-11-06 Robert Partridge Wokingham, UK 2020-11-06 Louise Williams Braintree, UK 2020-11-06 Denise Livingstone Wallsend, UK 2020-11-06 Julie Dyer Lower Shiplake, England, UK 2020-11-06 Talent Adindu Nottingham, UK 2020-11-06 Malcolm Hall Slough, UK 2020-11-06 Caroline Thompson Henley-on-Thames, UK 2020-11-06 Susan Partridge Lower Shiplake, UK 2020-11-06 Rosalind Parke Reading, UK 2020-11-06 Robert Limb Shiplake, Henley-on-Thames, UK 2020-11-06 Mike Jacobs Henley-on-thames, UK 2020-11-06 Julie Smith reading, UK 2020-11-06 Neil Jenkins Shiplake, UK 2020-11-06 Kathryn Piercey Lower Shiplake, England, UK 2020-11-06 martyn Watkins Lower Shiplake, UK 2020-11-06 STEVE WYATT SHIPLAKE, UK 2020-11-06 Name Location Date Joan Joyce westcliff, UK 2020-11-06 Tim Streather Shiplake, UK 2020-11-06 Richard Curtis Henley On Thames, UK 2020-11-06 Andy West Shiplake, England, UK 2020-11-06 Peter Finn Stockport, UK 2020-11-06 Adrian Friendship Lower Shiplake, UK 2020-11-06 craig ellis Summerhill, UK 2020-11-06 Jacqueline Abbott CALNE, UK 2020-11-06 Judith Kirk-Browne Chippenham, UK 2020-11-06 Stephen Taylor Westminster, UK 2020-11-06 Joyce Burton Blackpool, UK 2020-11-06 marc antony Ilford, UK 2020-11-06 jo mawby-baker Alvingham, UK 2020-11-06 Susan Wood Sheffield, UK 2020-11-06 David Pheasant Diss, UK 2020-11-06 Ivor MOODY Sheffield, UK 2020-11-06 YVONNE SHOEBRIDGE Lydd, England, UK 2020-11-06 Chris Milden London, UK 2020-11-06 Maria Schiller Teddington, UK 2020-11-06 Myles Touchard Henley, UK 2020-11-06 M Mckendrick Shiplake, UK 2020-11-06 Greg Stone Lower Shiplake, UK 2020-11-06 Name Location Date Amanda Blair Henley-on-Thames, England, UK 2020-11-06 Reece Dyer Reading, UK 2020-11-06 Joanne Van Ness Luton, UK 2020-11-06 Michael Hillier Totnes, UK 2020-11-06 Eric Hugh Davies Kincardine, UK 2020-11-06 James Brine Aylesbury, UK 2020-11-06 J Sawbridge Henley on Thames, UK 2020-11-06 Allison Keith Dromore, Northern Ireland, UK 2020-11-06 Chris Miller Birmingham, UK 2020-11-06 Nick Cook Lower Shiplake, UK 2020-11-06 David Inward Herts, UK 2020-11-06 Richard Milner SHIPLAKE, UK 2020-11-06 Chris Brooks Henley, UK 2020-11-06 Ezekiel Simon London, UK 2020-11-06 Martin Gem Wallington, UK 2020-11-06 Douglas Uttley Ryde, UK 2020-11-06 Jane Griffiths Merseyside, UK 2020-11-06 Stephen King Maidenhead, UK 2020-11-06 Charlotte Lumley Henley on Thames, UK 2020-11-06 Susan Barbour London, UK 2020-11-06 Bettina Phillis Newbury, UK 2020-11-06 Alan January St.