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Apartment plan moves ahead

12:04pm Thursday 13th December 2007

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By Joanne Moore »

Planners have finally agreed a scheme for 13 homes on the site of the Calne Local Centre despite protests about parking.

The decision by members of North Wiltshire District Council's development control committee last night now paves the way for developer Persimmon to build a community centre on a different site in the town.

Originally the centre would have been built on the land where apartments and town houses will not be created but Persimmon claimed the cost would be too great.

Now it will use money made from selling the nine apartments and four town houses to pay for the community centre on a different patch of land owned by Calne Town Concil.


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spooks, calne says...
4:01pm Thu 13 Dec 07

is this the land next door to the north star?

wiltswatcher, Chippenham says...
8:26pm Thu 13 Dec 07

Whatever local objections are raised, if it is a major developer involved then their friends at NWDC will pass it everytime. Funny that.......

Brian Heath, Calne says...
11:38am Fri 14 Dec 07

I think, 'spooks', that you will find this is the patch of land adjacent to the Beversbrrok Medical Centre. If I'm right, then it's clearly nowhere near big enough for this number of new properties, but as 'wiltswatcher' says, developers' money will always talk more loudly and more importantly than local objections as far as planners are concerned.

spooks, calne says...
7:20pm Fri 14 Dec 07

Brian Heath wrote:
I think, 'spooks', that you will find this is the patch of land adjacent to the Beversbrrok Medical Centre. If I'm right, then it's clearly nowhere near big enough for this number of new properties, but as 'wiltswatcher' says, developers' money will always talk more loudly and more importantly than local objections as far as planners are concerned.
which was the old carpark .if they built on that that will make it a total rat run .it is bad anough round there at the moment who ever designed so that you drive round the back of the shops to get to the frount of the shops needs there head read.
that area really will become the slum of calne.

Calne Resident, Calne says...
9:23am Sun 16 Dec 07

I think we all know that NWDC couldn't care less about Calne. This is just another example of their attitude!

P Dolman, Calne says...
10:38am Fri 21 Dec 07

following the capitulation by the planners to agree to the building of these houses an application will be made to build a community centre on the North End Playing field. I am against this in principle, we should not allow. The playing field was brought by the council in 1936 to meet its obligations to provide recreational land for residents.This is the only official field in the north of Calne where our children can rightly kick a ball we should not agree to loose any of it!

spooks, calne says...
11:03pm Sun 23 Dec 07

P Dolman wrote:
following the capitulation by the planners to agree to the building of these houses an application will be made to build a community centre on the North End Playing field. I am against this in principle, we should not allow. The playing field was brought by the council in 1936 to meet its obligations to provide recreational land for residents.This is the only official field in the north of Calne where our children can rightly kick a ball we should not agree to loose any of it!
Its also used for dog walking and sometimes training football.loads of kids use it for criket and football in the summer and is a geat area for kids to mess around in.
if they built houses there there entrance will cut across the outside of the north star where when football is on is congested anough.
the people of calne should do every thing in there power to stop the developers of this land.
www.calnetalk.com.

Joe, Calne says...
10:17pm Sat 29 Dec 07

Do we actually need a community centre there anyway are there not enough underused halls and facilities in Calne already.

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