Links to Other Sites of Interest

Websites

Reports

Developers

Websites

The South West Regional Assembly our unelected regional quango who approved and submitted the Regional Spatial Strategy to government in 2006.

Government Office for the South West, working with the SWRA on details of the Regional Spatial Strategy.

The South West Regional Planning Module, managed by South West Councils, collects and presents evidence to support planning policy making in the South West.

The Manuka Club All over Britain, local groups of concerned citizens are challenging plans for irresponsible development. The work of these local heroes goes unsung, and is often under-funded. The Manuka Club was set up to support them and to secure a living and healthy countryside for the enjoyment of everyone.

Every Action Counts, encouraging local involvement in environmental activities

Reports

GOSW have indicated that work on the RSS is about to begin again. Read their press release.

See how YOUR Council has responded to the RSS. Alice Ross of Save the Countryside has prepared a matrix to show what all the Local Authorities in the SW thought of the modified RSS proposals.

Links to the information supplied by the Government Office of the South West about proposed changes to the Regional Spatial Strategy
http://www.gosw.gov.uk/gosw/planninghome/691545/713860/?a=42496

The draft RSS made simple for the Executive Summary
http://www.southwest-ra.gov.uk/media/SWRA/RSS%20Documents/Final%20Draft/execsummary.pdf

Kate Barker wrote a review for HM Treasury of the housing supply – the problems started here…
 http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/prebud_pbr05_adbarker.htm

What does the Barker Review mean? Let the kind people of The Times property section explain…
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/article1039646.ece

A useful synopsis from Friends Of the Earth South Gloucester, of the housing numbers for Bristol, over 117,000 in twenty years.

Friends of the Earth have written a very clear briefing on Sustainable Housing … http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/sustainable_housing_mps.pdf

They also point out here that the South West RSS misses a great opportunity to achieve carbon targets…
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/briefings/ducking_carbon_challenge.pdf

The CPRE shed some light on some of the myths surrounding housing and development, this report was written for the East Midlands but applies to us all. CPRE housing myths.pdf

Independent expert analyses commissioned by CPRE South West question the assumptions behind the emerging RSS. This four-page briefing provides the detail behind the letter and summary briefing sent to MPs in May 2008. CPREsbriefingMay08RSS.pdf

Everything you ever wanted to know about planning from the CPRE.

Save Rural England – people who work in the countryside increasingly cannot afford to live there, while people who can afford to live there increasingly do not work there, the National Housing Federation solutions. Save rural England - build affordable homes.pdf

The Empty Homes Agency do great work to embarrass Councils into reusing empty homes – see how many homes your Council is leaving empty… http://www.emptyhomes.com/usefulinformation/stats/sw08.htm.

Do also have a look at their submission to the Affordable Rural Housing Commission… http://www.emptyhomes.com/usefulinformation/papers_publications/rural.html

Natural England have published some research on how green spaces benefit our health… http://www.nwph.net/phys/Publications/Benefits%20of%20Green%20Space%20for%20Mental%20Health%20v1.1.doc

Mental Health charity MIND shows the difference being outside can make to our state of mind… http://www.mind.org.uk/ecominds/Mental+health+and+the+environment.html

Green-space have surveyed people using green spaces and parks to find out what they think … http://www.green-space.org.uk/downloads/PressReleases/LPW/21%2006%202007%20-%20LPW%20Release%20-%20Health%20and%20Wellbeing%20-%20National.pdf

The physical and mental benefits of exercising in the country are all here… http://www.countrysiderecreation.org.uk/pdf/CRN%20exec%20summary.pdf

Chris Elton Consultancy (economic policy analyst); Stephen Custance-Baker (statistical modeller); and planning consultants Green Balance and Llewellyn Davies Yeang. The reports for CPRE South West are available on www.cpresouthwest.org.uk . Further details of the reports by Green Balance and Llewellyn Davies Yeang are available on www.cpre.org.uk.

Developers

Gleeson Homes Ltd and The Gladedale Group Gleeson Homes Ltd and The Gladedale Group are the two developers trying to build on the 100 acres of green countryside in Wickford to the north of Station Avenue and extending up to and beyond Waverley Crescent - an area known locally as "Barn Hall".

Andrew Martin Associates The planning agents acting for developers Gleeson Homes and The Gladedale Group.

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