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A trust rejects a planning application for a drainage pipe that fears that you could damage ponds in Herstmoneceux.
They said: “This proposal represents a serious threat to the established ecosystem, the local heritage and the attachment value of this unique site.”
The confidence of the trust refers to the planning application WD/2024/2257/MAJ, which can be regarded at www.wealden.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-advice. Latimer developments were applied to the Wealden District Council to install a drainage pipe and the associated infrastructure in the country at the Lime End Farm in Chapel Row. In her accompanying letter it says that the underground pipe would be discharged from a residential building location and facilitate the delivery of 70 houses with a detailed building permit.
The Lime Park Heritage Trust is concerned that the detour of the water source would have a “devastating influence” on nearby ponds.
In her letter to the Council it says: “The network of the pond has been maintained from the adjacent field for over 40 years by the drainage of surface water.”
It said: “We are deeply concerned about the effects on protected species, including ducks, toads, Moorhens, Reihen and Great Crested Newts, which is known that they inhabit the ponds.”
A letter template in LimeparkherstmoneceUxmuseumunescoworlDheritgesite.org also described the pond network, “an essential part of the setting of a unique local cultural heritage value”, “the only surviving early generation of electricity generations” from 1896. Remove the proposed water redirection and lead a thorough and independent ecological and cultural assessment of the consequences, which takes into account the long -term effects on the ecosystem and the historical generation station of the pond.
The letter came to the conclusion: “We are calling for a complete consultation with everyone involved, including residents, cultural heritage organizations and environmental groups to find a solution that protects this invaluable natural and historical capital.”
The trust also wrote to MP Angela Rayner, Foreign Minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government, and sent a copy to MP Steven Reed, Foreign Minister for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
In this letter they said that sustainable alternatives could be examined and asked the Foreign Minister to “intervene and to reclaim the planning application”.
The application by Latimer Developments for the Pipe said that the outline planning application (OPP) for 70 houses (WD/2015/0090/MAO) was approved in September 2015, while all reserved matters (WD/2018/1584/MRM) were approved in February 2019.
The accompanying letter states: “The majority of the planning conditions attached to the OPP was released or partially released. This is with the exception of condition 27 (surface water drainage). Condition 27 of the OPP requires an submission and approval of the surface water drainage chemical for the location. “
The original idea was to follow the existing surface water drainage route over the southern border to the pond over the overland river. However, the leading local flood authorities were expressed because of their “uncontrolled nature”.
The accompanying letter states: “The applicant has examined a number of options that culminated in an agreement with the adjacent farm to install a pipe through the farm field to the watercourse in the south. The drainage network on site remains unchanged, since the difference is a failure to the Chapel Road, which is more connected to the off-site pipe than the southern border and the neighboring pond. “
Latimer Developments/Clarion Housing Group was addressed for a comment.