Cllr Bernard & Robert McGuin - Lepton & Fenay Bridge Update

Thank You to 993 Local Residents who have signed the petition and thanks again to my son, Robert McGuin for helping set up this petition and promoting on social media. We are only 7 local residents signatures away from 1,000 signatures, please sign and share if you have not already done so change.org/p/save-lepton-fenay-bridge-from-development. We are looking to see if local media are interested.

We still wait for decisions on the planning applications. This petition was set up to show opposition to hundreds of proposed houses in former green belt areas. Even if the applications were approved, significant money would have been put into the Lepton & Fenay Bridge area... Or so we thought. I wanted to give an update on the first application that was passed just off Penistone Road, the original developers have passed this onto a different developer and met some local residents of Whitegate Grove. Basically every large scale development needs 20% to be affordable housing yet they have turned around and said they don’t want any. They want to reverse the 106 section scheme that protects greenspaces, puts money into our sewage/drainage networks, our highways and local schools. Basically what we knew all along is the developers seem to want to make as much money as possible and give the impression they don't care about the effect of building hundreds of houses in Lepton & Fenay Bridge.  

The facts are there are different developers for each proposed site in Lepton & Fenay Bridge. Until they agree to 20% social housing and stump up the cash for section 106, it is very likely no development will take place on housing as Kirklees Council planners if they followed the law should not pass these current plans. 

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Thanks 

Cllr Bernard McGuin - Almondbury Ward Councillor Facebook: facebook.com/bernard.mcguin
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