After a three year investigation of Planning Integrity -The Planning War for England is declared as a Yorkshire Ward with 4.3% of Kirklees dwellings (20,000 people) is now taking huge new Kirklees housing development on its 3% share of Green Space. Supreme Court Clarification of PINS NPPF mis-interpretations corrected May 2017#
If you want to build over England's Green Space (a new LEEDS each year in England) - contact these named and proud experts :
http://www.spawforths.co.uk/latest-news/appeal-success-on-kirklees-urban-greenspace
Yorkshire's Moorside Community, adjacent the M62 high air pollution areas, now has to supply over 900 homes in Cleckheaton.*Kirklees 2nd LocalPlan has over 31,000 homes with 30% forced onto 'sacrosanct' Greenfield by Sajid Javid's Govt. targets. Whilst Sixth form, sports centre,nhs childrens ward are closed and Maternity unit downgraded.
Three Lib Dem Councillors ignored and swept aside. Councillors votes ignored. Local Residents ignored (See Jo Cox article on above link).
In the Lords - The Baroness of Cleckheaton could do nothing despite promises to protect Cleckheaton Green Spaces and valley sides from Green Space erosion in Moorside, in the full PINS knowledge that Brownfield exists with planning for over 200 homes (not started in 5 years).
We fight on as 124 Spen Residents in full knowledge the NPPF and local plans are a developer biassed and Govt. sponsored and initiated con trick.
The Development transfers amenity and views from existing residents to new residents .. with existing residents amentiy lost such as three Hedgrows and TPO's woodland cut off from the Green Space wildlife. The view of the Town hall is stolen from existing residents and transfered to new residents who 'quite nicely take the Semi Rural Green Space Amenity from existing residents thankyou'. Existing New Lane , Moorside and Halifax Road residents become part of a wider housing estate (New Lane locked into it with 60 dwellings) altering existing resident home situations that have life long mortgages that were being paid for, for a semi rural area with D3 green space protection and on street parking for terraced homes. And all to enable more unaffordable high price Green Space housing in favour of building on the masses of Brownfield in Cleckheaton.
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22% BUILT Kirklees - made to supply 12000 more homes than Maidenhead and Bromsgrove put together Sajid and Theresa- magic £ millions for green land owners YORKSHIRE FINALLY FIGHTS BACK IN CALDERDALE shaming KIRKLEES
Contested Garden strip - possessed decades ago after no public purse expenditure,footway installation or street lighting provision post alleged adoption
WITH EXISTING RESIDENT RIGHTS CLEANSING TO ACCESS PROTECTED LAND - THE WORST PLANING DECISION EVER ?
A 7 - 0 ELECTED COUNCIL PLANNING APPLICATION REJECTION on the USE OF MOORSIDE URBAN GREEN SPACE FOR STRATA HOMES, SPAWFORTHS AND PARAGON HIGHWAYS DEVELOPMENT -
OVERTURNED WITH ERRORS* BY AN INSPECTOR FROM THE GOVT PLANNING INSPECTORATE (PINS) - 
#FAILURE TO WEIGH GREENFIELD PROTECTION POLICIES ADEQUATELY by deeming them 'not up to date' or against para. 73
MANIFESTO PLEDGES BROKEN AND NPPF CORRUPTED DISCRETIONARY PINS INTERPRETATION TO ALLOW Hideous DEVELOPMENT on land protected in UDP,2013 Local plan and 2017 Local plans. Plans now in chaos.

An abuse of Public Trust revealed in the public interest
PINS (4 employees involved with this sites erroneous appeal decision - Housing supply policies diminishing Green Space protection policies)
A Government Body involved in creating the very conditions they used to cite as the reason to ALLOW the grant of permission to build on the site* in their Feb 2017 Greenfield Appeal Surge. (15 from 24 - 62.5% OVERTURNED in favour of developers)
A Government Body involved in the retraction of the 2013/14 22k home Kirklees local plan and delays in the 31k+ home 2017 local plan. Using a 2013 PINS influenced weighing of the decision at the public enquiry (*2013 22k home local plan withdrawal on volume grounds resulting in no demonstrable 5yr Kirklees supply- now shifted by PINS into choked Spen Ward next to the M62 car park).
Aggressive Developers pulling in 'Experts' from all parts including Manchester , Leeds and Wakefield (none of which are part of Kirklees) to outwit Kirklees council at the Public Enquiry and out fox to encourage the Govt Pins interpretation of presumption in favour of destroying England's Communities and Green Space.
And yet there are over 31,000+ homes sites they could have gone for in the consulted 2nd local plan, finally submitted in March 2017. Since then Sajid Javid (nimby 7000-30 % on Bromsgrove greenbelt) wants 40% more (or backtracks in September?)
so public consulted plan still not signed off in Kirklees (31000 + ).Detailed, dubious on the fly , planning by Appeal took place in Batley in December 2016.
The Inspector not judging the rejected plans but later Sept 2016 plans with November Highways Submissions that were written in November 2016 and published to the community (the public) on 12th December in online form only , one day before the public enquiry. Section 106 signed during the appeal with no public visibility of new Paragon Highways proposals that continued to ignore Kirklees Highways OWN safety instructions.
The Process says this to the general public as it smugly reminds the people they most probably cant afford any justice or have any right to an appeal (minimum £50k) - 'A PINS decision can only be overturned in the High Court - the option Kirklees Council failed to utilise'
Residents parking removed from outside terraced homes or made illegal junction parking on Pearson Street. All internal site visitor parking as prescribed in developments is now used to 'local cleanse existing residents', meaning mass visitor parking overspill to the junction area.
PM lets Immigration get out of control and HAMMOND AND JAVID now WANT A NEW LEEDS BUILT EVERY YEAR - but not in THEIR backyard !
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The national disaster inflicted on hapless councils - Two plans in 5 years still not adopted by PINS and now 40% more volume- 2017 local plan v3
 

STRATA HOMES

A detailed Insight into building on Community designated Green Space
Land contamination evidence is on link 2 above
Highways evidence is on link 2 above
Late Developers Highway submission from 12th Dec 2016 is on link 2 (1 day before public enquiry)
Coal Mining evidence is on link 2

Kirklees Highways asked to explain junction safety and why they stopped some land owners developers from accessing just nine homes from Moorside on the identical single footway street, one up from Pearson Street at Thornton Street
New Lane opposing Kerb- 0.5 mtr width missing with no disabled access possible. This needs resolving to regulation prior to the lane being used to access 60 homes
Strata Homes Allowed on site without PINS inspector Highway and Parking conditions being met
Digging started within 2 metres of existing homes - 16/10/2017
Kirklees allowing unsafe (none compliant visibility splays) Highways and no internal visitor parking and temp resident cleansing car parks with no planning permission.
Its not Grass Kirkees  Its slippery Moss ! - see the sub standard width Kerb and junctions, if housing is to be increased off New Lane - we need Standards Compliance.
info@battleofspen.org.uk - Highways altered LR Portal boundaries on Pearson Street post 1986 - WYK222874 conflicts at LAND REGISTRY - check your boundaries as Highways attempt to take verges over private land on Moorside lr titles
junction to major road 50 metre visibility splay (kirklees parking bays) will not be cleared in both directions.
'LET THE 40yr mortgage BUYER BEWARE'
Could the developer find 30 internal car parking spaces (10 visitor and 18 residents and 2 new dwelling) ? Answer - NO, so Public Safety and PINS Conditions make way
The Development on Pearson Street and Moorside Displaces existing terraced home residents parking and moves them from a safe 4 home cul de sac (none junction) to an unsafe junction with on street parking obstructing entry and Kirklees provided Moorside Bays for 50 metres (the splay) in both directions left uncleared of obstructions - The developers highways agents argue residents can park dangerously and probably illegally (according to highway code) around the new unsafe junction instead. On New Lane the left splay does not take account of 90% of traffic over the centre line travelling within 18 inches of the footway and new junction, in the wrong direction.
  Only Kirklees Highways know the true answers on their INACTION around standards at junctions with A roads. The residents will be reading MFS regulation and will not be deflected onto optional directives - Holding a safety negligent Highways Accountable.

Will the Elevated Arsenic Levels on the site be dealt with ?
Scraped and piled and left ?
Will the two/three times DEFRA allowed levels of Benzo Pyrene allowed on development sites be resolved ?
Will customers know they are potentially buying houses on Land that DEFRA states vegetables cannot be grown on due to risks to health ?
Will Customers be aware that they are literally undermined with shallow mines across the site ?
Will customers be aware to avoid recurring Woodland management / site fees that absolve the developers from maintenance liability - who cuts the large trees ?
Will customers be aware to beware of Leasehold purchases and subsequent Freehold purchase traps ?
Will customers know why they dont have permitted development rights on some plots ?
Should residents now look to purchase Green Space and Speculative Fields near Spawforths, MP's and Strata Homes Directors local areas to test nimbyism ?
Lets play the same games / use loop holes in the process to get housing on their Greenspace.




The Story >
The Battle for Spen is about Govt. misleading the Public with the NPPF, local plan DCLG interference and the planning process Manipulation and Conflicting broken pledges in Govt Manifestos (2010 , 2015 and 2017 promises) to get net migration into the tens of thousands and contrary pledges to protect Greenbelt that local plans now seek to place 500,000 homes on (CPRE / Local Plans watch). This is an issue of Public Consultation, Consent and Trust and Govt. Integrity. NHS transformation (cuts) , Health and Social Care collapse, House ownership and affordability collapse in Britain, School under funding and over crowding, Prisons Collapse, Sports Centre Closures are all linked to hidden per head reductions of services funding - Its all linked to claimed GDP growth, tax take erosion and Manifesto pledge failures that has been brought at the expense of everyone in the hidden GDP - Beds per head or school pupil per head metrics. More people have migrated to England in the last seven years (ons / migration watch) than new houses have been built for, so we have not even stood still with housing stocks per head.
A GOVT FAILING TO PLAN with CONSENT AND SO PLANNING TO FAIL ITS PEOPLE
WHAT IS A LIE IN A MANIFESTO PLEDGE ?  something you state to the public to win votes without any intention of being able to or wanting to carry it out ?
POLITICIANS SO MISTRUSTED (they no longer seem to care as a collective about lying in public or on tv or in parliament and seem to think that they can spin the truth of reduced funding per head as increased funding) SO MUCH SO THAT MANIFESTOS NOW NEED TO BECOME THE FIRST (BILL) LAW A NEW GOVT PASSES
Presumption in favour of Unsustainable development is a national disgrace.
Where housing is fitted into existing or reducing community infrastructure whilst at the same time a claim about a growing economy is made.
A growing economy needing to cut everything ?  So none of this is sustainable development.
Any Honesty or Integrity would see the GOVT. announce where IT is going to put nine (English Regions) new cities on the Greenbelt to fix the problem they (not the people) or councils have created.
Fully funded new Cities of between 100,000 to 250,000 affordable homes that have the schools and hospitals they need so as to not damage existing communities and further degrade quality of life,congestion, air quality and services.
Our local evidence - £96,000 sent out of area to the nearest school with places - 2.1 km away and 25 minutes walk whilst this areas deprived schools are full (Hightown and High Bank) and get nothing. The Sports Centre is now closed. We have no college or sixth form facilities. Dewsbury Hospital (our local hospital) has its maternity unit scaled down and childrens ward closed in an area where the birth rate is 4.2 (in the highest 10% in the country) , its A&E under threat and Huddersfield our Civic centres hospital, set to lose its A&E totally in favour of pfi Halifax and Calderdale. With Spen locals expected to travel on the M62 log jam as we try to get to pfi Pinderfields in Wakefield. So a failed plan for 450,000 Kirklees residents and much the same next door in Bradford - Englands 5th biggest City. Together 1 million people let down with a totally Unsustainable plan that tries to rely on house building anywhere and commutes out to Leeds or Manchester for jobs that the govt intends to fund bias (super councils and city regions) to make them suck in the limited regional money ( £1338 PER HEAD less spent on a Yorkshire person versus a Londoner (where half of the population is Economic Migrant) . The London model of congestion, air pollution and two hour daily commutes, tagged onto the working day, attempted to be inflicted on the North in Yorkshire and Lancashire with no HS3 (needed well before HS2 London connections - The North and Midlands second class citizens demand T shape HS2 from Midlands to the North only, with HS3 being extension to Newcastle and Edinburgh and Glasgow deliberately not being connected to London). Central Govt. have damaged Local Government and Public Trust with over population and subsequent disregard for Planning and Green Protection laws.
Only a devolved Yorkshire Mayor and new Barnet formula for Englands regions can fix the injustice now.
Contact CPRE as the main defenders of AONB / GreenBelt


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