Summary
Derby City, South Derbyshire and Amber Valley councils are creating development plans for the next 15 to 20yrs.
These plans include new house building commitments. Decisions will be made after the current consultation period closes on where this housing will go. The set of potential development sites are already identified and the entire belt of green landscape bordering Mickleover is a significant target area. Now is the time for Mickleover residents to influence the decisions on whether some or all of this land is allocated for development by submitting their arguments to the councils about where around Derby the housing should go. Once these decisions are made there will be no going back. It is vital that as many residents as possible write or email the councils to argue Mickleover’s situation. Derby City, South Derbyshire and Amber Valley have now all extended their deadline for comments to 28th May 2010.
The three councils have made a commitment to government to build at least 21,400 new dwellings over the period 2006 to 2026 in and adjoining Derby (referred to as the Derby Principal Urban Area, or PUA), shown on the map here. That’s a 20% growth from Derby’s size in 2006! The bad news is that it has been decided that 14,400 is the maximum that Derby has space for inside the city boundary, leaving the other 7,000 to be built on green field land that currently surrounds Derby immediately outside the city boundary. Fortunately for the residents of the north and east of Derby, their edge of the city is protected by recognised green belt. The current residents of the west and south of the city have no such green belt protecting them, and therefore face having their neighbouring countryside replaced by a thick swath of housing that would destroy the landscape they currently know, and swamp the existing communities and their infrastructure. Of the 7,000 dwellngs, 6,400 would be built on South Derbyshire’s boundary and the remaining 600 in Amber Valley.
Further, Derby could decide to anticipate housing land requirements beyond 2026 and commit more land now to support that.
South Derbyshire has identified several options for the Derby sprawl, all but one of which involves more than the minimum 6,400 houses on their section of the city boundary (there would of course be further housing development in South Derbyshire away from the Derby PUA).
The potential land sites for development in the Derby PUA were identified in 2009, if not earlier, and are shown on the map opposite (the area around Mickleover may be clearer in the map on the home page, and see also the large scale maps on the maps page). The red sites are being promoted now, the orange sites are allocated already.
Land has already been committed for 2,800 houses in South Derbyshire on the edge of Derby, which leaves that authority to decide about land for at least another 3,600 houses, but potentially many more. The identified sites bordering Mickleover (Pastures Hospital extensions, New House Farm, the adjoining Flint land and Hackwood Farm) could accommodate 7,500 dwellings. Some or all of this land could be committed for development, completely separating existing Mickleover from the green fields bordering its current boundary. Further, Derby could put some of its housing on the Hackwood farm land that is within the city boundary.
Amber Valley’s plans identify housing options that could add several thousand to the 600 minimum already allocated on Radbourne Lane, which would further impact Mickleover’s northern border.
You might wish to consider the effect on Mickleover’s already overstretched infrastructure - the small Tesco supermarket, limited other shops, inadequate village parking (and no space to extend), library, doctor’s surgeries, schools, etc, and the aggravation of transport bottlenecks with more residents travelling to employment areas and facilities located elsewhere.
These plans include new house building commitments. Decisions will be made after the current consultation period closes on where this housing will go. The set of potential development sites are already identified and the entire belt of green landscape bordering Mickleover is a significant target area. Now is the time for Mickleover residents to influence the decisions on whether some or all of this land is allocated for development by submitting their arguments to the councils about where around Derby the housing should go. Once these decisions are made there will be no going back. It is vital that as many residents as possible write or email the councils to argue Mickleover’s situation. Derby City, South Derbyshire and Amber Valley have now all extended their deadline for comments to 28th May 2010.
The three councils have made a commitment to government to build at least 21,400 new dwellings over the period 2006 to 2026 in and adjoining Derby (referred to as the Derby Principal Urban Area, or PUA), shown on the map here. That’s a 20% growth from Derby’s size in 2006! The bad news is that it has been decided that 14,400 is the maximum that Derby has space for inside the city boundary, leaving the other 7,000 to be built on green field land that currently surrounds Derby immediately outside the city boundary. Fortunately for the residents of the north and east of Derby, their edge of the city is protected by recognised green belt. The current residents of the west and south of the city have no such green belt protecting them, and therefore face having their neighbouring countryside replaced by a thick swath of housing that would destroy the landscape they currently know, and swamp the existing communities and their infrastructure. Of the 7,000 dwellngs, 6,400 would be built on South Derbyshire’s boundary and the remaining 600 in Amber Valley.
Further, Derby could decide to anticipate housing land requirements beyond 2026 and commit more land now to support that.
South Derbyshire has identified several options for the Derby sprawl, all but one of which involves more than the minimum 6,400 houses on their section of the city boundary (there would of course be further housing development in South Derbyshire away from the Derby PUA).
The potential land sites for development in the Derby PUA were identified in 2009, if not earlier, and are shown on the map opposite (the area around Mickleover may be clearer in the map on the home page, and see also the large scale maps on the maps page). The red sites are being promoted now, the orange sites are allocated already.
Land has already been committed for 2,800 houses in South Derbyshire on the edge of Derby, which leaves that authority to decide about land for at least another 3,600 houses, but potentially many more. The identified sites bordering Mickleover (Pastures Hospital extensions, New House Farm, the adjoining Flint land and Hackwood Farm) could accommodate 7,500 dwellings. Some or all of this land could be committed for development, completely separating existing Mickleover from the green fields bordering its current boundary. Further, Derby could put some of its housing on the Hackwood farm land that is within the city boundary.
Amber Valley’s plans identify housing options that could add several thousand to the 600 minimum already allocated on Radbourne Lane, which would further impact Mickleover’s northern border.
You might wish to consider the effect on Mickleover’s already overstretched infrastructure - the small Tesco supermarket, limited other shops, inadequate village parking (and no space to extend), library, doctor’s surgeries, schools, etc, and the aggravation of transport bottlenecks with more residents travelling to employment areas and facilities located elsewhere.
