Latest News: 21/10/07: Hart Council appoints Planning Consultants and requires the Pru to undertake proper assessments

Hart’s Planning Department has instructed an independent consultancy group (DLP Planning) to make a recommendation on its behalf to Hart Council regarding the Mega Depot proposal.  We recently met with Hart Planning and DLP to ensure our substantiated concerns about the understated impacts of the Pru’s proposal were understood and clarified that there is no date yet for when the proposal will be considered by the Council. 

The Planning Department recently requested the Pru to undertake several proper assessments, which supports some of our concerns: 

• Requesting a realistic assessment of the Pru’s legal fallback position, this is the Pru’s ability to re-use the existing mainly low density research and development buildings without any modification or repair.  The assessment will significantly weaken the Pru’s mega depot traffic generation case based on existing lawful use. 

• Challenging the Pru’s position of avoiding utilising a method for rating industrial noise and its affect on residential areas (BS4142:1997).  Hart has based their request for an appropriate noise assessment on a Planning Inspector’s decision regarding the method being very relevant for a similar proposal.  We have continually highlighted this assessment omission by the Pru as a serious issue, due to the 24 x 7 noise impact on many residents in the Fleet and Farnborough area. 

• Requesting an appropriate assessment on the impact on the adjacent Special Protection Area (SPA), quoting a European Court judgement based on the potential of adverse effects ‘...the competent authority will have to refuse authorisation’.  We strongly believe there would be an adverse impact on the integrity of the SPA and other local protected areas, including the Fleet Pond Nature Reserve. 

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