Our
detailed concerns
The Dinedor Hill Association have a number of
concerns that have prompted us to take this
action:
• the Council have waived the normal requirement for a
developer to provide 30 to 50% of the housing as affordable
for local people, in order to maximise money for the road.
This principle should be challenged.
• the council failed to satisfactorily answer objections
raised by individuals and organisations, including the
Government Office for the West Midlands.
• following the election the new Conservative
administration has announced a ‘major road and
house-building programme’, and are specifically promoting
the model of Bullinghope as a way for funding such
road-building programmes. It is important that this model
is properly tested
• the new local Councillor for Hollngton ward, was elected
specifically on a mandate of stopping the housing at
Bullinghope and the linked use of money from the developer
to pay for the road. This demonstrates the strength of
local concern which has been ignored to date.
• The Council has started building the road without having
all the funding in place, and are relying on money from the
housing developer to pay for it. This means that they will
not be able to give proper and impartial consideration of
the future planning application, because they have a
financial interest in approval.
• the selection of land at Bullinghope was done in
isolation from proper consideration of potential sites
around the whole county. It is an inappropriate location
for a number of reasons, including:
• allocation of this land will inevitably lead to further
development of several thousand houses spreading out from
the current southern boundary of Hereford to the line of
the access road.
• it will greatly increase traffic on the A49, the Holme
Lacy Road, and further increase congestion into Hereford
City Centre
• it will destroy the landscape setting of Hereford City
and the historic setting of Dinedor Hill for ever.