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The
yellow line is the border to the site the NSE actively uses in its
day-to-day business. Let's refer to this as the Existing Developed
Site, or EDS.
There
are many single-storey buildings and these are well spread out.
The general look and feel of the site is that of a university campus
rather than residential housing.
The
Green Belt includes all the area inside the yellow line, together
with most stuff above and to the right. Everything shaded green,
in fact!
Because
the buildings are of such low density, one can readily see the justification
for Green Belt classification.
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How
low is low density? The four pictures to the right and
below are all from within the NSE's EDS, i.e. within the yellow boundary
line above.
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is why ALL the land on the NSE's site/estate/land is correctly classified
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And
what is the function of the Green Belt?
This is perhaps best summed up by the NSE's Chief Executive, Mr Graham
Faulkner, in a letter published in the Bucks Free Press on 25 July
2003 in which he writes "The development . . . involves a site
bounded on all sides by housing. It is hardly a buffer between developed
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a look at the maps again. The NSE's site is the perfect buffer
between green fields and built up areas. In fact, if one did ever
condone building on the NSE site, the very worst possible place to
do so is exactly where the NSE is suggesting! As to the site being
"bounded on all sides by housing", sense think
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The
buildings in purple are the other residential buildings on the Skippings
Farm estate - 3 cottages on Tate Road and a few terraced cottages
in the farmyard (presumably originally built for farm workers).
The latter are actually within the Colne Valley Park.
The
NSE appear to take these as the cornerstones of 'their' 'building
line'. Both are isolated from the NSE's EDS. sense
see no justification for this presumption.
Note
the open greenfield area to the left of the Tate Road cottages.
This is earmarked to bear the brunt of the intensive housing development.
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To
complete the picture, this map includes agricultural buildings in
brown and Debenham House (leased by the NSE to the Bucks. Mental
Health Department) in blue.
Do
the NSE take these as augmenting their 'building line'? Given the
remoteness of the Tate Road cottages and the agricultural nature
of the remainder, sense see no 'building line' at
all!
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