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Issue 1051
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7th March 2019
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HOLLIN BUSK PLANNING CAT SPARKS HOUSE FIRE DELAY CAUSE ANGER THE Planning Committee that is to decide the fate of a large housing development on Hollin Busk has been delayed once again.
Sheffield City Council cancelled the March 12 slot at last minute with a new date yet to be set. Local action group, Upper Don Action Group (UDAG), was formally told last week by Council planning officials that the long-awaited planning committee meeting had been agreed for March 12. For good measure, UDAG’s Chairman, John Hesketh, double-checked at 9am on March 4. At 3pm on the same day, John was contacted by the same Council official, announcing that it had been cancelled. It’s 16 months since the application for the 93+ houses was made and UDAG say that the repeated delays are unacceptable. John said: “This latest cancellation by the Council is a disgrace. It comes on top of delay after delay.
“The original date for this key planning meeting was March 16 2018. It was then switched to April 13 2018. For the rest of 2018 the committee date disappeared altogether. It reemerged at the end of last month – ‘definitely’ March 12. We now know this date has also been scrubbed only days after being announced. It’s farcical, a black comedy. “How on Earth are local people in Deepcar and Bolsterstone meant to live a normal life? A massive housing development is planned next door, one that will utterly transform the area, yet the Council cannot seem to decide the fate of the planning application. It is worth reminding ourselves that the idea of this new 93+ dwelling ‘village’ was first mooted in January 2017. UDAG held its first public meeting about this proposal in March 2017 – yes, that long ago. “The planning application itself was lodged in November 2017. Normally, planning applications are decided in three months or so, perhaps a little longer with a complicated
application. But a staggering 16 months has passed since this planning application arrived at Sheffield Town Hall. “For over two years neighbours have had to live with this threat and to cap it all they’ve had to put up with the shifting sands of the planning meeting that would decide whether or not the large housing scheme would go ahead. “I sat on this planning committee for the best past of two decades and was chairman for five years. I have never known anything like the situation with the Hollin Busk/Royd Farm proposal. It should have been put to a planning meeting months ago – a year ago – and decided one way or the other. Then local residents could get on with their lives. “The Council ought to be ashamed of itself how it has handled this planning application. In my time as planning chairman, I was known to be tough on Council administrators – I certainly would not have allowed a situation like this to arise.”
A CAT is believed to be responsible for a kitchen fire and explosion at a property on Ecclesfield Road, Sheffield at 5.15am on Wednesday morning. The family pet is thought to have knocked the hob on, which then set fire to items on top of the hob and ignited an aerosol can which exploded and blew the kitchen window out. Luckily a South Yorkshire Police Officer was just passing at the time and called for fire crews to attend, along with evacuating the occupants. Firefighters from Elm Lane station were called to the fire and quickly put the fire out.
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Thankfully no one was injured. The fire crew left the scene at 5.50am.
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