Help save Theydon Bois, don’t let them ruin our village.
There is still time to object to this application if you have not done so already. If you have objected please ensure you have received an acknowledgement from EFDC. If you have not received an acknowledgement your objection will not have been lodged. Please write again or use the link to the EFDC website at the bottom of this message.
Blunts Farm Estates Limited have applied to EFDC for a new application EPF/2195/06 to ‘Complete 18 hole golf course, practice ground and academy .…access to Abridge Road. Erection of a golf club house, groundsmen's equipment store and fertiliser/chemical store with associated car parking,’ at Parsonage Golf, Coopersale Lane.
You may think it is a good idea to complete the course, but what the application requests is 32,000 more HGV movements and the relocation of the clubhouse much closer to the village. This could mean another 6 months of heavy lorry movements to the site.
The clubhouse would provide ‘a range of facilities including locker rooms, changing rooms, shop, office accommodation, members’ social accommodation and catering facilities.’ The plans indicate amongst other things, a self contained flat, and a large restaurant. Blakes Golf, the developer’s other course in the area offers weddings, conferences and corporate events with the capacity to seat 260. The car park is intended to accommodate 304 cars. Will the car park and extensive roadways be lit?
Is this really intended as a golf club house or will it eventually end up turning into a substantial leisure complex? It is intended that the club house would be located close to the Old Foresters site, that has planning permission for 'Change of use of sports pavilion to mixed use of nursery school and office/facilities for a golf driving range ' These two sites could easily be joined and then there is the potential for a substantial ‘pleasure dome’ on our doorsteps. Do residents in Forest Drive want the possibility of 260 people celebrating at the end of their gardens every weekend? The history of this developer here and elsewhere already confirms he will not give any consideration to the best interests of our village.
Write to: Head of Planning and Economic Development, EFDC, Civic Offices, High Street, Epping, CM16 4BZ.
Quoting Ref: EPF/2195/06, Attention Stephan Solon.
You can also register your objection by visiting the following link on the EFDC website:
www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/af3/an/default.aspx/RenderForm/?F.Name=JgCY5_60GVP&ReturnURL=IndexFormsbyGroup&HideToolbar=1
Quoting the reference EPF / 2195 / 06
EVERY OBJECTION COUNTS !!
YOUR VILLAGE NEEDS YOU!!