Claines Development

Crest Nicholson, developers have an interest in Church Farm and have already submitted a design brief to build between 528 and 660 new houses on part (18.3 hectares) of our Greenbelt land.This represents over 1/3 of the total area, with further options over a significant proportion of the rest of it!

These plans are pretty, but fanciful and suggest a low density, eco-friendly "village community" with acres of open space. The reality would be very different,particularly as upto 40% of this development would have to be affordable housing and would ,therefore, inevitably lead to a much more cramped, modern estate sprawl.

To make it look more appealing they have also ,cunningly, sub-divided this development into 3 "smaller parcels" of proposed residential .They are suggesting development up to the gas pipeline (demarked by white and orange topped posts) creating a new "northern urban edge" leaving a minuscule piece of Greenbelt between it and the A449 link road.

This is a major threat - DON'T BE MISLED

This would completely destroy our already narrow, fragile, GreenBelt for ever!

(Remember this is NOT a done deal,No decisions have been made yet. Although the area has been surveyed , as we witnessed earlier in the year, we have been consulted and hopefully, via the questionaire ,you have made your feeling known on this and other areas under consideration within Worcester City)