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5. We are, therefore, now looking at a potential multi-property residential development at Orchard
View Farm of at least four new houses. The positioning of the three houses, and the one currently
being pursued by the applicant, is obviously a starter for significant residential development –
totally at odds with Green Belt guidelines and the environment in which the proposed developments
are sited. This would have a significant and adverse effect not only upon openness but on the
character and amenities of this part of our Green Belt and Heritage Land. There remains our
concern expressed in our letter of 28 January 2015 (ref 15/00015/FUL) that the applicant possibly
(as in the example set by 139 North Cray Road, when permission for two houses led to the approval
of another four) intends her current applications to be part of a step-by-step strategy to build even
more houses on her land- there certainly does seem to be sufficient land for this. All this – even if it
remained at four new houses - would represent new residential development in upper Parsonage
Lane of an unacceptable level, and set a dangerous precedent for similar sites in North Cray.

6. As well as the reasons given above for our concern about this application, and the applicant's
previous one, which opens the door to other development, there is also the additional concern of
local residents about the current under capacity in Parsonage Lane for essential services, sewers that
block regularly, low water pressure, overhead power cables and slow broadband.

NB Whilst I am writing this letter, the lane outside my house is flooded yet again, and, like me,
several of my neighbours are suffering from low water pressure, or have no water at all. This
confirms that the pipes running under the road are being damaged by the number of heavy lorries
etc coming and going from the top end of Parsonage Lane- and that the Lane just cannot take any
further development of the kind being sought by Orchard View Farm. These frequent fractures are
occuring all along Parsonage Lane because our road was never built for heavy vehicular use. I
spoke to the Thames Water man attending on site this morning, and he expressed the same view
without any prompting from me.

We ask you, for all the reasons we have given above, to please reject this application.

Yours sincerely

Jean Gammons
ANNEX to letter of objection re 15/01453/FUL Orchard View Farm

1.1 BEXLEY'S CORE STRATEGY

Policy CS01 Achieving sustainable development (page 19). Here, one sub-para is relevant:-

g) protecting designated areas, such as metropolitan green belt, from inappropriate development so
as to preserve, enhance and promote Bexley's network of open spaces and waterways, heritage,
biodiversity and geological assets

Policy CS06 Sidcup geographic region (page 51)

e) ensuring that Conservation Areas and other areas of particularly strong character or historical
value are protected or enhanced, while ensuring that the areas that are characterised by mainly semi-
detached and detached family housing are retained and, where possible, improved, including the
surrounding environment, and that new development is in keeping with the character of these areas.

Policy CS09 Using Bexley's resources sustainably (pages 64-65)