Fulford Battlefield Research Website

 

York Chief exec
 Recording the events of September 1066
tanged arrow from Fulford
yorks releif map

The Fulford Tapestry Website

Home
Up
Prime Minister
Cabinet Secretary
Warning Councillors
Warning new cllrs
Responding to Persimmon
Persimmon 2014
Sustaining 'the story'
Democratic legitimacy
Eric Pickles MP
Minister of Transport
Developer letters 1
First objections
Old people's home
Planning cmte
Planning appln
Traffic
Parliamentary Question
English Heritage
Behaviour complaint
Inacuracies
Legal issues
Road plan
Planning objections
Cooperation rq
Peer review
Revised  study
Mitigation
Impass
Credibility
York Chief exec
Permission 1
Permission 2
Appeal statement
Secretary of State
Minister's Call-in letter
Archeologist 5 2012
Objections 2012
CYC Chief Exec
CYC Chief exec
Freedom of Information
Baroness Andrews
The experts say

York City Planning documents online

Maps

YouTube videos

 

The Final Report

Finding Fulford cover

Kindle edition of Finding Fulford is now available

The Fulford Tapestry

 

Visiting Fulford

Map York

 

Chief Executive

York City Council

6 January 2002

Dear Chief Exec,

Planning 'offsets' for the Germany Beck proposed development

I am taking a close interest in the development known as Germany Beck and have already spoken with the developers, many of your officers and recently addressed the Consultative Committee set up by the Planning Committee at their meeting on 23rd July. My concern is the protection of the site of the Battle of Fulford through which the site access road will be built if the plan goes ahead un-amended.

From my talks with the developers they feel that they have incurred significant costs in what they refer to as 'offsets'. My understanding, as a layperson, is that these are works that will either be undertaken or paid for by the developer for the benefit of the community. I would be grateful if you could tell me:

  • Where I could see a list of these arrangements and their costs,

  • Where I can consult the rules under which these arrangements are made?

If I had this information, I would be in a better position to understand why the developer cannot afford the cost of an access route that would avoid the battle site. I would also like to check that a piece of our local and national heritage can be bartered within any existing rules.

There is another related, small matter with which you might be able to help me. Your officers, in particular Derek Gauld and John Oxley, have been generous with their time and information for which I am very grateful. So far, it has been an excellent example of open government. However, I am having great difficulty in discovering what traffic surveys have been used to justify the claims in the planning application that Fulford Road can absorb the anticipated traffic generated by the proposed scheme. If you could ask someone to identify the information and let me see it as a matter of some urgency, I would be very grateful. I think the meeting to discuss the implications of the traffic is on 23rd January.

A speedy reply with the information requested would therefore be appreciated.

Yours sincerely,


Chief Executive

11 January 2002

 

Dear Chief Exec,

Planning 'offsets' for the Germany Beck proposed development

Thank you for your prompt reply including the terms of reference for the consultative group. It is unfortunate that the focus is exclusively on local consultation when my work was singled out in the July Planning Committee report as one reason for consultation excluding me from this group.

Thank you also for your action on the reports. If I could have a look at the reports you list I would be very happy. I have, however, in the meantime sent a letter to Cllr Brighton asking that the whole list of references mentioned in the traffic section of the planning application be made available. A copy is attached.

However, the key issue in my letter was about the financial 'offsets'. The developers tell me that they will incur significant costs for works that will either be undertaken or paid for by them for the benefit of the community. I would like to see a list of these arrangements and their costs plus the rules under which these arrangements are made. I inspected the public documents again yesterday (Thursday) at the Council offices just in case I had missed such a list.

If I had this information, I would be in a better position to understand why the developer cannot afford the cost of an access route that would avoid the battle site.

Yours sincerely,

 

The data requested was never disclosed 

 

Related sites Facebook  Twitter (@ helpsavefulford)        Visiting Fulford        Map York

The author of the content is Charles Jones - fulfordthing@gmail.com   Last updated April 2015

This site does not use any cookies - so nothing is knowingly installed on your computer when browsing