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Barrowby Parish Council 2014 1

Meeting to update local residents

on the planning process relating

to the Adamstiles planning

application.

20th January 2014


• Discussed the history of the Adamstiles – some of the

issues have been around for 40 years!

• Focus on the anti-social behaviour issues but no clear

view on how to resolve these.

• General consensus that the Parish Council should

proceed towards submitting the plans.

• Plans have now been submitted in line with previous

outline.

• Meeting tonight to gauge support and encourage local

residents to feed back to the SKDC planners.

Re-cap on our September meeting

and next actions


The Adamstiles proposed build area


Areas to cover

• Adamstiles – the early years

• The documents that have been submitted

• Looking forward

• Open forum


Adamstiles – the early years!

• 1972 David Charles Homes Ltd purchase the land to build houses in Hurst Crescent and Adamstiles.

• 1975 As the build was nearing completion the company went into liquidation.

• 1978 An overgrown and untidy area was reported.

• 1979 Land purchased in conjunction with SKDC.


Adamstiles - the early years

• 1983 Site was levelled and seeded.

• 1993 Letter of complaints to PC noting

football being played, “making life hell” and

“gangs of youths”!

• 1994 PC wrote to SKDC – SKDC would

resist the “loss of the land” and would not

put play equipment on the Willows.

• Ongoing issues with anti-social behaviour


Where are we today?

• Still seeing issues with drug taking equipment,

alcohol bottles and food litter left on the play

area as well as ongoing damage to the play area

and criminal damage to local properties.

• The extent of the issues has been reported to

the Grantham North Rural Neighbourhood Panel

on a number of occasions and the Adamstiles

was recognised by the Grantham police as a key

priority area during both 2011 and 2012.


Where are we today?

• SKDC were approached in March 2011 for

a view on the potential development and

indicated that whilst the Highways

Department would be supportive that

Planning Policy relating to the

development of public open spaces (Core

Strategy Policy SP2) would mean that this

development would not be supported


Looking forward

•The Parish Council has discussed a number

of times the ongoing issues with both the anti-

social behaviour but also the wider provision

of play equipment across the village.

•The annual ROSPA reports have

acknowledged that whilst the current play

equipment provision is generally fit for

purpose bit that a significant amount of the

equipment needs to be replaced by more

modern equipment.


Looking forward

• The Parish Council recognises this need

and is keen to pursue a strategy whereby

match funding is secured to allow

investment over a 2-3 year period to

ensure that the provision of play

equipment is improved not only the

Adamstiles but also on Steven’s Gutter

(the village green).


Next steps • In order to achieve this the Parish Council

investigated the possibility of selling a part of the Adamstiles play area and investing all the proceeds into a carefully constructed plan to either improve or replace all the play equipment in the two areas.

• 2013 Engaged a planning consultant to investigate possible options and costs.

• 2013 Exploratory meeting with SKDC planners to discuss possible options and likely objections.


Type of equipment?


Next steps

• At this stage the Parish Council still needs

to investigate any covenants that might be

in place but has now applied to SKDC for

planning permission to build up to three

bungalows that would reflect the existing

design of the Adamstiles housing.


Information on the SKDC website

• View planning application S13/3421

Application information

• Reference: S13/3421

• Location: 7, Adamstiles, Barrowby, Grantham, NG321TG

• Proposal: Erection of 3 single storey dwellings (outline application)

• Received on: 02 January 2014

• Type: Outline Planning Consent

• Decision: Not yet determined

• Applicant: Barrowby Parish Council

• Agent: Mike Sibthorp Planning

• Comment on this application

http://southkesteven.firmstep.com/default.aspx/RenderForm/?F.Name=Td9krN4rNgU&HideToolbar=1&Reference_Number=S13/3421


Documents to review

• (155 kb) Application Form

• (726 kb) Block Plan

• (28.1 mb) Design and Access Statement

• (1.82 mb) Land Contamination Report

• (355 kb) Site Location Plan

http://www.southkesteven.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2230&ApplicationNumber=S13/3421&Type=Document&Document=Additional+Documents%2fApplication+Form.pdf

http://www.southkesteven.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2230&ApplicationNumber=S13/3421&Type=Document&Document=Additional+Documents%2fBlock+Plan.pdf

http://www.southkesteven.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2230&ApplicationNumber=S13/3421&Type=Document&Document=Additional+Documents%2fDesign+and+Access+Statement.pdf

http://www.southkesteven.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2230&ApplicationNumber=S13/3421&Type=Document&Document=Additional+Documents%2fLand+Contamination+Report.pdf

http://www.southkesteven.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2230&ApplicationNumber=S13/3421&Type=Document&Document=Additional+Documents%2fSite+Location+Plan.pdf


Adamstiles (continued)

Proposed new

residences


Submitted documents

• The play equipment plan

..\Adamstiles\BARROWBY

FACILITIES PLAN.pdf

..\Adamstiles\PLAY AREA

SPECIFICATION.pdf

• The village facilities plan

BARROWBY FACILITIES PLAN.pdf






PLAY AREA SPECIFICATION.pdf







Open Forum

Any questions?


Appendix slides


Where are we today?

•Over the last few years Barrowby has suffered

ongoing issues with the anti-social behaviour issues

with young people both from the village and the

Earlsfield estate in Grantham.

•Adamstiles has been seen an area in which to

congregate, this has led to a number of police

interventions although local people have been

reluctant to report issues to the police due to the

threat of retribution, and certainly local inhabitants

who have raised issues have suffered from

vandalism to their property as a result.


Where are we today?

• Another example of local feeling was shown in October 2011 when a seat provided by the Parish Council was damaged sufficiently badly that it required removal.

• At that time a poll was made of approximately 30 houses that back on to the Adamstiles and the vast majority stated that they did not want the seat re-instated due to the potential of encouraging further anti-social behaviour.

• The Parish Council has taken advice from SKDC on different lighting types to see if the lighting can be improved to deter unwelcome behaviour but no solution has been found.


The report

• BIG.pdf

../June 2013/BIG.pdf


1979 – play equipment purchased


What has been happening?

•Review of play equipments to meet village needs

•Discussions with SKDC AND Lincolnshire police reference

anti-social behaviour

•Commenced discussions with SKDC and a planning

consultant regarding potential small scale development

•ROSPA play equipment inspection carried out

•Monitoring of anti-social behaviour issues

Adamstiles


What else is planned?

•Continue to develop co-ordinated play equipment options on a holistic

village approach.

•Develop draft plans for housing structure and share with local residents

•Investigate grant options to joint fund play equipment enhancement.

•Submit plans to SKDC post PC consultation

Adamstiles