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16/12/09 :Naz says West Berkshire's LDF decision vindicates his strategy on Pincents Hill:
Labour Reading West candidate Naz Sarkar says the proposal by West Berkshire Tories to exclude the 750 houses at Pincents Hill from their proposed Local Development Framework "completely vindicates" his strategy of demanding that the LDF be decided before the planning application on Pincents Hill was considered.
Mr Sarkar first called back in September for the LDF, the Core Strategy, to be settled first, arguing that if the Pincents Hill application was rejected subsequently the Council and the community would be in a stronger position at appeal. "Tory Cllr. Alan Law rejected my call then and in fact planned a special meeting of the Planning Committee for today, 16 December, to determine the Pincents Hill application!
"But I am delighted that eventually West Berkshire did see sense, that meeting was cancelled, and today instead the Council is publishing an LDF which excludes Pincents Hill and goes for a dispersal option which Labour, along with local Parish Councils and many others, argued for from the beginning.
"The Pincents Hill application will still come to Planning Committee next year, but there will be a strong planning case, as well as a strong case based on popular feeling, to reject it. We have worked hard to achieve this turn-round and it's great news for the local community."
It is understood that West Berkshire Council are to hold a special meeting of the Eastern Area Planning Committee to consider the Pincents Hill application will be held on 24 February, a month after their full Council will have considered the proposed LDF.
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