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A community crowdfunding campaign has been launched to fight the application by ‘Crondall Developments Limited’, for which the campaigners claim Hart District Council “has already accepted a payment of almost £300,000” from the developer.
The council disputes it has done anything wrong, however, commenting that the payment – for Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG) to offset the development’s “adverse effect” on the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area – will be returned should the application be refused.
Crondall Developments Ltd proposes the demolition of existing stable buildings at Broden Stables, to be replaced by 30 “predominantly family homes” including eight social rented and four shared-ownership homes.
It also proposes 62 parking spaces on the three-and-a-half acre site, which overlooks Crondall New Surgery and Oak Park Golf Course, and has already consulted residents, as well as Crondall Parish Council and GPs.
However, the application has to-date received 173 objections online, compared to just one comment in support, with concerns about traffic, impacts on the surgery and countryside at the front of objectors’ minds.
“Redlands Lane is a tight single track country lane with few passing places and no pavement beyond the surgery,” said Noel Coloe who lives on the lane’s junction with Pankridge Street.”
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Farmhand Herald 21 March 2017.