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Outline Planning Application submitted by BAE Systems and Redrow Homes to Renfrewshire Council on Thursday 8th June 2006.
Bishopton residents who neighbour the ROF site have received a "Notice to Neighbour" form. The applicants BAE/Redrow have made an application to the Council for planning permission to carry out the following development:
"Outline planning application for the regeneration of the site to form a mixed use community growth area" at "Royal Ordnance Site, Station Road, Bishopton, PA7 5NJ".
Plans and associated documents are now available for viewing at Bishopton Library. Photocopies can be made.
A copy of the submission can also be inspected at the Planning Department, Gilmour House, Paisley. It will eventually be available to view and download on the Renfrewshire Council website (as at 13 June 2006 the dedicated Bishopton webpage is not yet in operation). Information will be provided also on timescales for making representations.
The Outline Planning Application consists of 30 binders, numbered as follows:
- Planning Application itself – application form, list of notified neighbours, neighbour notification plan, application site boundary
- Masterplan Statement
- Community Woodland Management Strategy
- Public Consultation Statement
- Foul Water Drainage Strategy
- Flood Risk Assessment
- Transport Assessment
- Public Transport Strategy
- Environmental Statement – Non technical summary
- Environmental Statement
- Appendices to Environment Statement 12 – 30 Appendices
The above 30 binders were delivered to Bishopton Library on Tuesday 13th June 2006 by David Bryce, Assistant Principal Planner (tele 0141 842 5283).
He explained that the Neighbour Notification is sent out by the planning applicant, that the Planning Department received the application on Thursday 8th June, and has spent since then collating and binding and labelling all of the above into a format that can be easily referenced.
Other information provided:
- In practice, people will have 4 months to object.
- The 14-day period referred to on the planning application form relates to the fact that the Council won’t make a decision about any planning application in less than 14 days.
- Obviously the Alteration to the Structure Plan hasn’t yet been approved by Scottish Ministers. He commented that the Council couldn’t approve the application before the Structure Plan was approved, although they could reject it before the Structure Plan was approved.
- Bishopton residents who neighbour the site will receive a separate Neighbour Notification for the Environmental Assessment. Although the Assessment is already included in the documents available for viewing, it is a legal requirement that neighbours have to be notified of this on a separate basis.
- There will be three further applications submitted over the next months for: motorway junction, decontamination and remediation of the site, and the landfill site. Again these will also be the subject of separate Neighbour Notification notices.
Although the Notice to Neighbour forms have been sent only to those who neighbour the site, any Bishopton resident may object to this outline planning application. We will provide further advice once we have had the opportunity to consider the application and associated documents. In the meantime, if you wish to register the fact that you intend to make a representation, you can download and send a copy of a standard letter to the Director of Planning and Transport. The instructions and download details are given at the bottom of this page
BAG hopes that, as has already happened in the three rounds of consultation to the Structure Plan, there will be a community-wide objection made.
There is an overwhelming opposition within our local community to this development going ahead. BAG has submitted on your behalf, just under 7,000 letters of objection to the planners and to the Scottish Ministers, who are currently considering the Alteration to the Structure Plan and have a period of up to 40 weeks to make their decision.
If they do not give their approval, the plans to develop the ROF site may not proceed. We believe that it is premature and highly improper that Renfrewshire Council should even consider these planning applications before the Scottish Executive has made its decision regarding the Alteration to Structure Plan, which would designate Bishopton as an area of urban expansion/community growth. If the Scottish Executive does not approve the designation of Bishopton as an urban expansion area, Renfrewshire Council will have wasted its limited resources, and council taxpayer’s money, working on these outline planning applications. NB Renfrewshire Council will have to hire external consultants as their personnel do not have the knowledge or expertise to handle decontamination issues. This will be a very costly process.
Annabel Goldie wrote this in her own objection letter to the Scottish Executive dated 7th June:
"If that (outline planning) application goes in before there has been proper consideration of objections to the Structure Plan then this makes a mockery of any suggestion that there is a fair and transparent planning process".
BAG will be making its views known to the Director of Planning and Transport in its objection to the outline planning application. Keep watching our website for more information.
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