Breach of trust over scheme? (From Bournemouth Echo)
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Breach of trust over scheme?
8:00am Monday 15th March 2010 in
MANY people with whom we have spoken appear totally unaware of the planning application from Talbot Village Trust to construct a huge concrete jungle on the area of farmland the trust owns south of Boundary Road roundabout, which flanks both Talbot Woods and Talbot Heath nature reserve.
The proposal is for a student hall of residence (450 units), 3,500 square metres of academic building and 378 homes, of which 151 would be affordable housing.
If approved, these houses, blocks of flats and university buildings will back onto the gardens of properties on the western edge of Talbot Woods – chiefly Dulsie Road. Quite apart from the fact the residents in Talbot Village already consider they are living on an ever-expanding University campus, as students take up residence in some homes there, this proposed, intrusive eyesore is upsetting large numbers of Talbot Woods residents, judging from the several hundred protest letters that can be read on Poole Planning Department’s website (Planning Application: 00/08824/084/P). The sheer impact of this proposal appears to lack any objective assessment whatsoever!
More importantly, this proposed massive development will encroach on the 400m protection zone designed to protect natural areas of heathland against the effects of urbanisation. We believe the trust’s intentions are at variance with the Talbot sisters’ vision when establishing the original Talbot Village.
Green space is being sacrificed for sheer profit.
Finally, given the proposal’s massive size, we find it inexcusable the trust did not pursue a consultative approach by holding public meetings. The fact it chose not to speaks volumes.
Hugh and Jenny Waller, Branksome Hill Road,Talbot Woods
Comments(4)
chaisara
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7:05pm Wed 17 Mar 10
Would keeping farm land help with aims towards resilience, Agenda 21 and the Earth Charter?
It's a shame that BU who've benefited from the Talbot Estate can't investigate less controversial options.
Diuglas
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9:46am Thu 18 Mar 10
After 30 years of watching the continuing deterioration of our urban heaths I can't believe that at Talbot Village we are seriously considering yet another large development alongside a heath and with typical human arrogance hold a belief that the effects on a fragile dry lowland heath alongside can be mitigated away by a proposal which includes a short, cat proof fence, set against a gorse hedge and backed up by a narrow fire break which previous heathland fire events have proved time and time again to be ineffective.
Have we so quickly forgotten the summer when a heath fire jumped the 50 metre wide A31 dual carriage way with central reservation at Picket Post , a fire that was so intense it burnt away 3000 years of heathland podsol and fire cracked the plateau gravel stones beneath.
It is known that increasing population pressure spells doom for fragile heaths and the rumour that the 400 metre buffer zones could be breached under development pressure in this urban setting may prove that the monopoly players and their followers who know the price of everything and the value of nothing can get their way not only here but elsewhere in Dorset. Should these developments go ahead the terms SSSI, bio-diversity and species protection would then exist in name only along with all those who would otherwise profess to be their guardians.
Veronica Trevett
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4:12pm Thu 18 Mar 10
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mikey2gorgeous says...
8:50am Mon 15 Mar 10
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'residents in Talbot Village already consider they are living on an ever-expanding University campus' - why the hell do they live next to a Uni if they don't want to live next to a Uni?
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Sounds to me that some Talbot Village residents feel their properties extend past the end of their gardens!