Summary of Comments.

Nearly 600 letters of comment, mostly objections, have been submitted in this round of consultation.

UK-Planning provide an on-line repository for the comments which have been submitted both by members of the public and also by what are termed statutory consultees. Confusingly the comments are scattered around different parts of the site but the main bulk are spread between the application for the main development and that for the effective closure of the Bourley Road car park.

Individuals who have written in may be interested to see if/how their comments have been detailed in Hart's official summary sheet.

We have provided links from this page to the comments made by significant statutory consultees as they can be tricky to track down on the UK-planning web-site.

PAG (130k Bytes) - is Fleet & Church Crookham's Planning Advisory Group. This body, which acts in place of a town Council, held a public meeting on 29th November to discuss the QEB. Sadly only half the councillors who sit on the committee turned up to listen to the debate, these were; Cllrs. Stephen Parker, John Pearson, Wallace Vincent, Sue Fisher James & Jenny Radley, and Dennis Gotel. Those not hampered by being on planning committee have recorded their views.

Hampshire County Council Highways (310k Bytes) - rarely say no to a development, some suggest that they hate to turn down the developer's highway contributions. Nothing much in their letter - no reference to the congestion expected to snarl up Reading Road South. They rule out improving the junction between Redfields Lane & the A287.
English Nature (1.2M Bytes) - At first sight EN appear to be agreeing that the mitigation measures are sufficient to protect the pSPA from the harmful impacts of the QEB development. However they do state that the removal of their objection is dependent on the securing of long-term funding to ensure that these measures are effective. As has been stated in Hart District's local plan, nature conservation is for ever (in perpetuity) - so securing this funding may be a major challenge for the developer.
RSPB (200 kBytes) - Pleased by some of the advancements made by Taylor Woodrow - but still holding their objection until it can be proven through legal agreements that their nature conservation measures can be made to work. In particular they require funding to be available "in perpetuity", which according to my dictionary is a very long time.