THURROCK Council’s Planning Committee have sent a clear message to Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation, we don’t want to be ‘flat Thurrock’.
Members of the committee registered their objection to three proposed large developments of flats in Arisdale Avenue, South Ockendon, at their meeting last night.
The first application the Council’s Planning Committee shot down was a proposal by Bellway Thames Gateway North to demolish an existing industrial unit and put up 80 new residential dwellings.
Out of the 80 new homes proposed there would be one studio appartment, 13 one bedroom flats, 37 two bedroom flats, 19 three bedroom houses, and 10 four bedroom houses.
Another application from Bellway Thames Gateway North proposes a further 60 new homes on Arisdale Avenue, comprising of 10 one bedroom flats, 38 two bedroom flats, and 12 three bedroom houses.
The other application the committee objected to was an application for sixteen three bedroom houses and 24 two bedroom flats.
When discussing the first proposal for 80 new dwellings Committee Vice Chair Councillor and £9,253.05 a year Barry Palmer said: “It beggars belief that developers could put in plans of this nature.
“It appears as though we are going backwards, with developers looking for 1960 style flats.
“If this goes ahead we are only building problems for ourselves in the future.”
£7,911.07 a year Councillor Barry Lawrence added: “I’ve never seen such a stupid set of plans in my life.
“I thought they tore down the Berlin Wall years ago, but developers seem happy to build one in South Ockendon!”
The Ockendon Councillor added: “I’m surprised my phone hasn’t been ringing red-hot.
“The design is poor, the legacy we are leaving for the future will be a problem.
“Why can’t we have family housing?”
£7,911.07 a year Councillor Andy Smith said: “The amenity space is less than half of that which we require, they don’t even come close to our standards.
“These applications are so poor.”
£7,911.07 a year Councillor Peter Harris was concerned that people who would move into these new dwellings, all proposed to be built on industrial land, would have nowhere to work.
He said: “ What struck me is that we are bringing in all these families and getting rid of all the industry, where are they going to work - its crazy.”
Dodgy Councillor £7,911.07 a year Gerard Rice voiced his concern at the lack of play areas for children in the proposals.
£7,911.07 a year Councillor Joy Redsell was also against the plans to build more flats in South Ockendon.
She said: “We are not building communities, we are building anti social behaviour, all over Thurrock.
“Its becoming flat Thurrock, we always say it- Its appalling.”
£15.822.14 a year Councillor Stephen Veryard was concerned that the primary schools in South Ockendon would not be able to cope if the proposals for all the new dwellings went through.
He said: “I find it difficult to comprehend that there are enough places in primary schools for 156 more dwellings.”
Councillor Lawrence agreed saying: “This would have major implications for education, I’m a governor at The Ockendon School - it’s full and there are lots of applications from people trying to get in there.
“And where will all these people go to see a doctor?”
Summing up the Planning Committee’s unanimous decision to advise the TTGDC that Thurrock Council object to the three applications for Arisdale Avenue, Committee Chair Councillor and £13.911.07 a year Stuart St Clair-Haslam said: “There is a time and a place for flats, but not en masse and not in every instance.”
The final decision on these three developments now rests with Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation.
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