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NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON SEEDLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL SALFORD SITE
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Star date: 12th March 2015 NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING, 100 TREES DEMOLISHED AND OVER £300,000 PLANNING FEES WAIVED AT COUNTRYSIDE PROPERTIES' SEEDLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL SITE Countryside Properties is set to avoid £318,664 in planning fees, including payments towards education places, while providing no affordable housing and demolishing one hundred trees at the site of the former Seedley Primary School site on Liverpool Street. Countryside's proposals for sixty houses go to Salford Council's planning panel next week with a recommendation by planning officers to approve the plans and payment avoidance. Full details here...
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Next Thursday, Countryside Properties' plans for sixty houses of two and three bedrooms on the site of the former Seedley Primary School, on Liverpool Street, will be put before Salford Council's planning panel. Countryside should be paying £318,664 in planning fees (Open Space- £129,168; Public Realm, infrastructure and heritage - £90,000 and Education - £99,496.32) but Salford Council planning officers have recommended that these payments should be waived because the scheme would be "unviable should planning obligations be sought"... `Unviable' means that the developer's profit won't be high enough. Instead, the Council intends to add a `clawback' agreement that will kick in if the profits do reach the set standard. What is alarming is that Countryside seems set to avoid Salford Council's much vaunted `Education Contributions', brought in to direct funding towards "works associated with addressing the increased need for primary school places that a development will generate". The demolition of Seedley Primary, along with Langworthy Road and Tootal Drive, directly affected the lack of primary school places in the area (see here). Now, ironically, houses to be built on the site of the former Seedley school will add to overcrowded schools in the area but the developer is set to avoid paying towards more places. Meanwhile, Countryside should be providing 12 affordable houses - 20% of the overall number - but, again, will avoid having to do this due to `viability' issues. The former primary school was well known for its leafy environment but now one hundred trees are set to be demolished, including Category B trees, which planning officers state is `regrettable'. An objector to the scheme noted that one of the trees to be bulldozed is one hundred years old, while another pointed to a covenant covering the site. These points are not answered within the planning papers. Last month, Countryside Properties avoided providing affordable housing plus over £1.5million in planning fees after the planning panel passed plans for its developments in Lower Broughton (see previous Salford Star article – click here). Meanwhile, new Salford Council figures show that 50% of Salford families can't even afford to buy a low cost home in the city (see previous Salford Star article – click here)
Main photo by Lewis Harrison Wood
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Brian F Kirkham wrote
at 05:36:47 on 13 March 2015 |
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| Has our dear chief officer of the council won the lottery this week? I realise he and his fellows at Development would like to get houses up and running to get the council tax - but letting off the developer with planning fees is tantamount to letting them treat our city like Dodge...Will it be yet another waiting game - where the Council tax payers wont see an improvement because the Finance team want to make up the shortfall? |
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The Fat End of The Wedge wrote
at 05:33:33 on 13 March 2015 |
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| Further info from the council to backup David c's and my comments:
Source http://www.salford.gov.uk/refugee.htm
"Why are asylum seekers in Salford?
Before the year 2000, asylum seekers arriving in Britain were housed mainly in London and the southeast. In 2000 the government changed its policy and dispersed asylum seekers throughout the country, on a no choice basis. Councils could choose not to participate in this government scheme, but could not prevent asylum seekers arriving in their areas. Salford City Council, along with other Greater Manchester councils, decided to participate in the scheme, to allow them to have some influence on the dispersal process."
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The Fat End of The Wedge wrote
at 05:33:03 on 13 March 2015 |
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| Regrettably Daved cameron is completely correct.
I grew up in London and saw all that David describes.
And, now to I see it in Salford - in fact the rot started when the Labour government opened the floodgates on immigration, and then set in place the dispersal process at the start of this century - due to London being full to the brim. And now so many more cities and towns are going the way of London, and the indigenous populations run to the country, what little is left of it.
And yes, another development where the environment suffers immensely. Mature trees make way for bricks and mortar and probably a few shrubs. Even if new trees are planted they will take many years to reach equivalent maturity - and no doubt there will be many less. In the meantime, more people, more pollution, more consumption, strained public services - education, health, police etc. etc.
Let us not forget also the patches of green space being lost all around the inner city.
Oh, and regarding a shortage of homes, I think I've found some that can be used:
Source http://www.salford.gov.uk/social-housing.htm
"A number of properties are assigned to the Social Housing team solely for the use of asylum seekers."
These places are affordable to anyone as:
"The Social Housing team have the following responsibilities:
Pay rent for the property
Pay council tax, gas, electric and water for the property
Pay for and arrange repairs
Decorate and furnish properties and maintain gardens"
Also backs up the dispersal I mention above:
"The Social Housing team is notified when somebody is being dispersed to the area." |
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David cameron wrote
at 13:12:27 on 12 March 2015 |
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| Meanwhile, new Salford Council figures show that 50% of Salford families can't even afford to buy a low cost home in the city (see previous Salford Star article ) ....like I've said before this labour council don't give a damn about salford people, salford is to become the new London where the indigenous are replaced with outsiders as the left and labour have done in London, also remember it was hazel blears and labour who closed down hope hospital maternity unit in salford meaning no more salford babies, and the follow on to that is salford people are no longer given priority over outsiders with housing, education, health. Nice one labour . Remember people keep on voting labour, they always put salford people first. |
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