RFU Planning Application Artificial Grass Pitch (AGP) NWWRA AGM - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

RFU Planning Application Artificial Grass Pitch (AGP) NWWRA AGM October, 2018 1

18/P0183, January 2018 Major Development 1. What? • 2. Where? • 3. Policy & Issues • 4. Who is affected? • 5. Representations • 6. PAC • 7. Next steps •

CONTEXT • NWWRA approach is • Pro sport and children’s sport • Pro Metropolitan Open Land (MOL) • Pro ecology • Pro traffic safety • Pro residents’ amenity • Objective: Ensure an ideal balance

1. What? RFU application (+ 30 year pitch lease to WRFC) • Artificial Grass Pitch (AGP) - 8,754 m2, raised • Fencing - white, 1.2m high, 3 rails, 360 m • perimeter + advertising Tarmac surround - >1000 m2, black • • Floodlights - 6 • Raised earth + mounds (2) xx cu. m. 4

What more? • Dugouts - 2 • Steel storage container + advertising - 30m2 side view • New 15m high floodlights (6) • Earth bunds - 2, measuring 860 m3 each (64L x 10W x 2H)

2. WHERE? • Where?

3. MOL policy Merton: “ p rotect and enhance the Borough’s open space network • including MOL, parks and other open spaces” London Mayor: “strongly supports protection from development • having an adverse impact on openness of MOL” “ Strongest protection should be given to London’s MOL and • inappropriate development refused ” “Essential ancillary facilities will only be acceptable where they • maintain the openness of MOL” Visual intrusiveness - no • Non-turf pitches (2015): “further erosion of open character of MOL” •

3. ISSUES MOL policies breached: openness, access, building • Ecology : flora, fauna*, SINC*, LNR*, light pollution • Site access solely via 6 narrow, unadopted NWWRA • roads Two-way traffic congestion + safety risks increased • * (Bats, badgers, nesting birds, Site of Importance for • Nature Conservation, Local Nature Reserve) Parking inadequate • Traffic congestion, safety •

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4. WHO IS AFFECTED? NWWRA residents (>800) in • Barham, Hood, Preston • Drax, Ellerton, Almer, Wolsey • Beverley, Holland, Copse • + RAWW residents (>200) in • Burdett, Melville, Lindisfarne, C. Park • 31

W ho is affected ?(2) • Village Ward • 8,000 residents • 3,670 households • 4,860 cars • NWWRA (1,400 residents, 850 cars?)

5. Representations • Against approval - around 65, >90% NWWRA residents • Detailed, planning-based objections • Support approval - around 65, >60% not LBM residents

6. PAC • October? • Case Officer recommending approval , (subject to conditions) • No case officer report published yet • 3 speakers allowed

7. NEXT STEPS • NWWRA to • Keep proactive, involved, for all • Keep members informed • Speak at PAC, for all (9 roads +) • Further action depending on PAC outcome