Where’d this go?
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Business-village-plans-thrown-out.5918228.jp
PLANS to extend a Fylde business park have been refused after more than a year of deliberation.
Fylde Council turned down plans, submitted by Kensington Developments, to build an industrial unit and three storage buildings next to Whitehills Business Park on Peel Road, Westby.
The decision came after councillors originally accepted the scheme in October, but days later overturned their own ruling on the grounds permission had not been sought for necessary parking spaces and access to the buildings.
Kensington had been asked to supply revised plans for Peel Hall Business Village, but had not done so by a meeting in November.
At yesterday’s Town Hall meeting, the plans had still not arrived, and the council voted unanimously against the extension of the business park.
Andrew Stell, planning officer for Fylde Council, said: “We requested revised plans at the last committee meeting in November, but they never came.
“Part of the building is outside the red line, which denotes the area to be considered in planning, for example the large circular entrance building.”
The first application, for the industrial building, covered an area of 30m by 14m, and the second, for the three storage buildings, requested a total area of 48m by 36m.
Residents had objected, saying there was no public transport or pedestrian access to the site, and increased traffic flow would result in gridlock on nearby Durham Avenue.
Mr Stell added: “The first building only has space for 12 spaces, and the second 14.
“Judging by the size of the units, we calculated that around 60 spaces would be needed.
“The site also has no public transport access and no pedestrian access, so most workers would be using cars.
“Plans need to show exactly how such issues would be dealt with, and as no new plans have been forthcoming, we have to refuse them.”
Another development company, Dolphin Developments Group, last year planted more than 3,000 trees and installed a green fuel generator at the five hectare Peel Hall Business Village, in a bid to make the site fully self-sufficient.
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Very suspicious, thanks for pointing it out Phil I didn’t even know it existed.
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agreed TB, the Gazette is a dodgy paper period.
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On the note of missing stories. I was driving up to Morecambe today and when you get to Lancaster all the radio stations except for a few go out. So I ended up on BBC Lancashire and out of the blue there was a story on the news announcing the new Palatine University Centre in Blackpool has been opened. Yet it was not even mentioned on The Wave or the Gazette. What’s going on there, an important event happens in Blackpool and the local media don’t even know about it. But a radio station all the way in Blackburn does.
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Bit wierd. Is that the college that they’ve just spent about 10 million on?
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Exactly the one if I recall rightly. They’re probably keeping a low profile because the Government lost the funds for the new FE campus on Central Drive. I notice how surprise surprise planning permission has been put in for a car park on the site or part of it.
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I think the answer’s quite simple. Kensington must have quite a large ad account with the Express – there’s been an article two weeks running (haven’t checked this week’s yet) stating how fabulous Lytham Quays is by two couples moving from Cypress Point (that they loved it was just that this even better opportunity came along). It’s a full page and designed to look like an article not an advert (without the usual advert bit in small print at the top). It could however also be something to do with Kensington already having gone to appeal (though this isn’t a court and public opinion would be irrelevant to any Planning Inspector anyway so on what grounds should it be removed?) And it doesn’t appear as “cached”.
This development was one of the ones the council wanted the road money for (presumably so that they wouldn’t actually build a new road as Owen Oysten won’t play ball about selling – though I thought compulsory purchase would sort all that out at low cost to the council).
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A mate of mine pit in a letter about traffic, it was printed but all the references to WBC were edited.
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Everything they ever put in from me is edited to the max.
In fact a relative of mine was interviewed by the Gasjet at the Royal Variety: she recently had a so-called “mini stroke” and lost most of her memory. But you should have seen the pro-council rhetoric the Gasjet attributed to her. It was better articulated than Stephen Fry.
It was confirmed that she didn’t say any of it…
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