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Funding
for the NSE's long-term care residents is provided by the local authorities
from which they came. This should include day-to-day
running costs together with provision for periodic capital replacement
and an element of profit. |
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It
follows from (1) that no external capital funding should be required
if reserves are properly built up over the years. |
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Over
the last 5 years or so the NSE has chosen to make capital expenditure
on projects other than their residential care homes. Consequently
the care homes are in a lamentable state and more obviously in need
of replacement than anything else in use on the NSE site. |
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The
NSE scheme proposed would take 6+ years to implement from whenever
started. This gives time to help arrange funding. |
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The
NSE propose to contribute £1Million from their own coffers.
sense believe that if they stretched themselves this
could be £25Million. |
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The
cost of razing and rebuilding care homes for 152 residents is around
£7-9Million. |
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By reducing the number of care residents from 250+ to 152 the NSE
is releasing a potential asset, 'brownfield' buildings on a Green
Belt site. sense believe they should be able to take
advantage of the footprint released - we have suggested two variations
on a theme to do so. Both permit the NSE to raze/rebuild the care
homes at no net cost to them and no overall increase in buildings'
footprint on Green Belt land. |
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The
NSE want £32Million for a complete site rebuild (excluding recently
funded capital developments, listed buildings and some administration
buildings) |
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sense
believe the NSE's £32Million demand is blatantly opportunistic
- they have taken a deserving cause and bolted-on everything possible
with the aim of raising as much cash as possible. We are looking at
the needs of 152 very deserving people. But £32Million is over
£210,000 each. Bearing in mind all are "fully funded"
this is just not believable. Furthermore, the NSE's plan to build
homes for around 850 people to in turn provide homes for 152 shows
the imbalance in their demands. |
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All
the above concerns the NSE and its plans for accommodating its long
term residents. There are two other interested parties, the NSE's
residents and the local communities of Chalfont St. Peter. |
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The
NSE's £32Million scheme is not all roses for the NSE's care
residents:
(a) The scale of building works is enormous - equivalent to
building c500 3-bedroomed houses:
(i) This would be hugely intrusive
on a relatively compact site.
(ii) It could take 5+ years to
complete, a long time to suffer reduced quality of life.
(b) Loss of amenity, tranquility etc. if today's green fields
become tomorrow's houses and
car parks.
(c) Uncertainty of attitude, conduct and behaviour of people
on the new housing estates.
(d) More traffic, noise and pollution. |
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The
proposed housing estate and elderly persons, housing are unsustainable
fringe developments. The former would be car-intensive. |
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For
the local community the issues are many and are detailed elsewhere
on this site. There are four general ones set out below that summarise
the situation |
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It
constitutes desecration of Green Belt land. Much of the land affected
is pure green fields. There would be considerable loss of amenity
and an unwelcome precedent. The local community would suffer harm
directly as a result. |
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The
scale of the proposed housing estates is enormous. It would be by
far the largest new-housing build in the are for nearly half a century.
Its size alone would create disruption during and after construction.
The local community would suffer harm directly as a result. |
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The
surrounding area consists mainly of open countryside and mature semi-detached
and detached houses with gardens. The NSE's proposals for high density
flats, subsidised housing, etc. do not fit in with that. The quality
of the neighbourhood would decrease. The local community would suffer
harm directly as a result. |
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Local
roads and services would struggle to cope with c850 additional people
and their cars. The local community would suffer harm directly as
a result. |
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In
summary, sense believe the NSE's proposals to be selfish
and inward-looking, grossly inflated and a callous hijack of a the
genuine and urgent need to upgrade their long-term care residences. |
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