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Wye with Hinxhill Parish

 Tenterden & Rural Sites Development Plan Document (DPD)recognises Wye's unique circumstances.  It will be put before Ashford Borough Council's Executive on 25 June 2009 in order for it to be approved for publication for a 6 week consultation period. The DPD

- allocates 45 new houses to Wye between  now and 2016

  • 25 on the site between Abbots Walk and Poynter's Yard, with access onto Churchfield Way, and with 35% of the dwellings being 'affordable (social) housing'

  • 20 on land at Luckley Field (rounding off Long's Acre and Little Chequers) with access via Long's Acre and Little Chequers (not via Oxenturn Road), and with 35% of the dwellings being 'affordable (social) housing'

- makes no housing allocation between 2017 and 2021 in Wye

- directs that a viability and marketing exercise for educational uses, in conjunction with a masterplanning exercise, must be carried out for the buildings, facilities and land at Imperial College in Wye that lie within and adjacent to the village.  These sites include the Listed College buildings on the High Street, the library and other college-owned facilities on either side of Olantigh road and the main halls of residence at Withersdane.  The results of the exercises will be fed into the first review of the Core Strategy which is to be adopted prior to the end of 2014.

To read the Wye policies, click here.  To read the whole DPD click here.

The Tenterden and Rural Sites DPD runs to over 100 pages and needs to be thoroughly studied as there will be much in it that affects Wye. The DPD will be reported at the PC’s Planning and Strategic Development Working Group meeting tonight (18 June) and will be on the agenda of the full PC meeting on 25 June. 

The Parish Council may want to obtain professional advice in order to ascertain exactly how to respond in ABC’s forthcoming public consultation. It will certainly want to organise events to raise public awareness so that people can understand the full impact of the Document on the community and where the Document may need to be strengthened or contested. Please be patient to enable the Parish Council to do a thorough job on behalf of the community whose views and interests the Parish Council has consistently promoted and supported right from December 2005, when the future of the Campus first became a major issue, and, thereafter, throughout the Core Strategy and Tenterden and Rural Sites process. 

All the effort of the past 3+ years has been well worth while, but the Parish Council is not complacent and knows there is an enormous amount of work to be done if the viability and marketing exercise that Imperial College is required to carry out is to be credible and acceptable to the community, and if the Wye Campus master-planning exercise – in which the Parish Council and community are expected to participate – is to deliver the best possible outcomes for the parish as a whole.

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Wye with Hinxhill Parish lies within one of the most beautiful areas of Kent. 

        

                  

Wye itself has a fascinating history and its medieval street layout forms the basis of the village's Conservation Area.  Its parish church stands sentinel over Wye and its adjoining countryside. 

 The village and the parish as a whole face many challenges . The Parish Council is working as best it can to promote the well-being of the parish by: helping maintain and improve the quality of residents' lives; contributing towards the preservation,enhancement and enjoyment of the character, beauty and integrity of the village and parish; listening to and representing the views and needs of all parishioners and supporting their interests.

 

 

Page last updated: Thursday 02 July 2009