If you live at the Dinno end of Lakeland Drive, especially Birkdale Avenue, Wentworth Way, Belfry Way, Moortown Avenue and Turnberry Way, as well as Swinston Hill Road this is the site in the Local Plan which affects you.
Taylor Wimpey have had an interest in it for ages to build 240 houses and they could get their chance as under current plans it will be removed from the greenbelt.
The 219 plot (as it is knows) is shown below:
The site is a combination of a Council owned playing field and two farmers fields which are privately owned. When the news broke in 2011 about homes being built here the owner began putting crops in the field, perhaps to hide the evidence of recreational use. Barbed wire and fences also sprang up overnight along with signs warning people to keep off.
This was quite silly, as recreational use of this land can be easily documented back into the past for decades. Many of the worn paths and tracks, the entry and exit ways are the work of 30 years or more walking, cycling and horse riding…
…And that is why this land “parcel” in particular has caused more anger than all others put together.
People are not going to accept a threat to their local recreational land, on their own doorstep, that they have walked over for decades.
This land is literally criss crossed with footpaths, but more on that in a later article.
The agricultural properties of the land are also rated as very high, although the recent farming is probably more of an attempt to deter walkers.
This is a shot from the end of Wentworth Way before the land was ploughed…
This fair sized parcel could accommodate 240 houses. The Council have proposed one third could gain access by opening up the end of Wentworth Way to the vehicle movements of 80 additional households. This has not gone down well with residents on that street who already complain of difficulties with car parking.
So to sum up, loss of recreational countryside, increase of traffic on a quiet residential street and loss of landscape and quality farmland.
No wonder this plot above all has caused so much resentment.
Here’s a quick plan for your perusal…
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The Dinnington people have forced their council to represent their feelings, their Parish council have objected to the core strategy. I think it is time for the people of Anston to stand up and be counted, two months down the road is too late. These houses won’t be for the children of local people starting off on the housing market, they are for outsiders and even RMBC say 48% immigrant. Before any additional houses are built in Anston, roads, schools, shops and facilities for the existing residents need improving. As a country we need to be producing more of our own food, not concreting over our farm land. There is plenty of brownfield sites in Sheffield and Rotherham to build houses on, that developers make less money is no concern of mine. I have concerns about many large organisations profiting out of the Uk, then avoiding paying any tax to our government.
WE HAVE GOT OUR VERY OWN FOOTBALL PITCH ON THERE WHAT WE CUT AND MAINTAIN FOR ALL LOCAL PEOPLE OF THAT AREA TO USE I MYSELF HAVE LIVED IN THAT ESTATE FOR 32 YEARS SO I CLASS THAT FIELD AS MINE SO I FEEL AS THOW NO ONE CAN KICK US OFF IT AND IF THEY TRY THEY WILL BE TOLD NO WAY