Maggie Stock, Chair of Warfield Village Action Group, responding to the article titled: ‘Plans for 33 homes refused: Councillor U-turn marks another twist in home saga’. The ‘U-turn’ was not so much by the Councillors at the Planning Meeting on 11 February 2021, as by the Bracknell Forest Council Head of Planning in his recommending for approval - at the Meeting on 16 December 2019 and again at the Meeting on 11 February 2021 – the Herschel Grange Application for 33 dwellings, which was almost identical to an earlier Application on the same Site for 34 dwellings, which was refused on 1 May 2019 under the same Head of Planning, the main reason being its ‘harmful urbanising impact on the character and appearance of the countryside’.
“It is not in the local plan and not in the Warfield Neighbourhood Plan. “It is not intended for housing, we don’t need it.” 33 homes will be built after gettting council approval An agent speaking on behalf of the applicant hit back, however, stating: “Nobody denies the development will have some impact. “But every aspect of those alleged impacts is scrutinised in detail in the officer’s report. “It concludes those impacts are not significant. “They been assessed by the highways officer, landscape officer, tree officer, ecology officer, heritage advisor, environmental health and local flood authority and they all conclude these proposals are acceptable.”
33 homes for Warfield are set to be approved. again A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build nearly three dozen homes in Warfield which already received permission once before is set to get the council’s approval again in a move which will save the authority £35,000. Hodson Developments originally submitted proposals to put up 33 homes at Herschel Grange off Warfield Street in June 2019 following the demolition of an existing house, but more than 18 months later the fate of the building work is still up in the air. This is despite councillors giving applicants their blessing to go ahead with the works in December 2019.