Lakeside firm in Fairford pool pledge (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)
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Pledge to build public pool at lakeside development in Fairford
5:00pm Tuesday 9th October 2012 in News By Laura Shack
A LAKESIDE developer has had a closed meeting with Fairford Town Council to discuss design plans for a controversial tourist estate and swimming pool.
Cygnet Investments gained outline planning permission to build 77 pavilions, 63 apartments and a leisure complex at Lakes 103, 103a and 104 and land at Milestone House in July 2010.
The development was heavily criticised and opposed by local residents and an unsuccessful application was made by the Fairford Environmental Society to have an area of land around Lake 104 classified as a village green to prevent it from being developed.
However, Fairford Town Council and Cotswold District Council backed the plans.
Now Cygnet Investments has around nine months to have design details or “reserved matters” approved by Cotswold District Council’s planning committee within a three year deadline or risk losing permission to build the holiday homes.
At last week’s meeting with Fairford town councillors, Cygnet Investments pledged to build a 25-metre swimming pool for the use of nearby residents, rather than the reduced 18-metre pool that had previously been settled on.
However, a section 106 loophole from 2010 still stands and the developer is not obliged to start work on the ‘pay-as-you-go’ leisure complex until 130 out of 140 properties have been built.
The presentation to councillors also revealed that the London Road site, which will be accessed from the A417, is set to contain eco-friendly holiday homes of up to three storeys in height, made of Cotswold stone and wood cladding.
Fairford Town Council will now wait for an application to be submitted to Cotswold District Council to discuss the council’s view.
Comments(11)
PFisher
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1:38pm Wed 10 Oct 12
barbwirebob
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3:23pm Wed 10 Oct 12
Well done Mr Developer, the schools and community of Fairford thank you and look forward to using the swimming pool.
What an improvement this will be to this site, a safe and really useful eco friendly environment.
With Fairford being surrounded by water this has to be a logical progression, it is a shame Fairford EnvironMENTAL Society held this up with rubbish ideas of Village Greens etc which cost the tax payer a lot of money “Tens of Thousands of pounds”!! If it wasn’t for them we may have been a lot closer to this by now!!
Olly Cromwell
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5:49pm Wed 10 Oct 12
It's worth a read.
walterparkgate
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3:38am Thu 11 Oct 12
It would be lunacy to build 10 houses and have to provide a sqimming pool for the community as a result.
No build 130 take the monet and sell out is plan A.
Only a load of idealistic Lib Dems could fall for this sort of scam. This is why closed door meetings with or without cigars caviare fine wines etc are a really bad idea.
walterparkgate
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3:38am Thu 11 Oct 12
It would be lunacy to build 10 houses and have to provide a sqimming pool for the community as a result.
No build 130 take the monet and sell out is plan A.
Only a load of idealistic Lib Dems could fall for this sort of scam. This is why closed door meetings with or without cigars caviare fine wines etc are a really bad idea.
Robert Jeanes
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12:43pm Thu 11 Oct 12
This new sport is Internet Bullying. It's condoned, supported if you like, for here it is in print – yet it's perfectly legal, for the moment anyway. What's more it is done daily, anonymously, and comment no matter how preposterous remains clearly unregulated. Worryingly, a few know lawfully, precisely who is responsible for they have priviledged access to those internet addresses. Think on that.
It's a real suspicion that Party politics - yes the from the Grandees at very 'top' here in Gloucestershire - encourage (by default) 'negative' comment and 'they' could well even be placing it themselves! The system - very British - it goes under Freedom of Expression means one can, in print, be as malicious and cowardly as one wants and, just plain wrong - with total immunity ..... and score points for those who may lead the electorate! Try carrying a placard around town with what is often on these pages......?
@'WalterIwanttopokea
digatlibdemswhynot'.
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The massive Second-Home 'baby' visited on sleepy Fairford has solely Tory DNA provenance from start to finish. It was conceived from afar by extremely clever speculators and sold to not nearly so clever local and CDC Councillors. Incubation and early feeding was by a leading Tory darling who truly believed the story she was told - as did all the Tory CDC at Cirencester. The £100 million-pound contract has enormous implications but the gongs for this were loudest in Tory heartland, Cirencester - where paid professionals got it wrong.
So, egg remains all over baby's face. Years on from picking up on, and twigging the small print nobody publicly accepts responsibility for shameless public representation.
barbwirebob
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4:20pm Thu 11 Oct 12
For you can see what no other can see
Now foresight is forewarn, maybe you should make this your job.
However, if what you were to say were true,
This country must be full of fools
Unfortunately, we can’t all be smart like you.
No wait, thinking about it I think you are wrong
This application is a beautiful SWAN
In sporting reference I think the term is jog on.
This I have to see
Although you quote freedom of expression
Are you going to delete me?
This application should be looked at with glee
Not trodden on like a flee
I for one, if this goes ahead will be very happy.
Now, I am no poet
Nor able to foresee
But for once let’s back the future for you and me.
Not every developer is out to mislead or a crook
Not everybody is a fool
So, this I say to you, let’s see what plans come through and let’s have a look.
walterparkgate
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11:24pm Fri 12 Oct 12
Quite how a scheme instigated under an Indepenent controlled CDC and a Lib / Lab coalition and then a minority Conservative administration can have Tory DNA is questionable, except as judging by the fact it is being done and not just talked to death does rather suggest Tory invlolvement.
But Robert, hold secret meetings at your peril, brown envelopes, dancing girls, lines iof white powder our imaginations will run riot, so keep public office duties in the public domain. It's not the standards board they will answer to now but magistrates.
Not Postman Pat
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4:41pm Sun 14 Oct 12
I also take Private Eye, but unlike you I do not take everything in it as read, you only have to look at the amount of litigation they are involved in to realise that they too are not always right, read it like I do for entertainment not as some new fangled bible.
Barbara Walsh
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7:31pm Sun 14 Oct 12
Life's too short. Smile once in a while. And when you truly have a noble cause to fight for, do it properly. Not in the online pages of a local rag.
walterparkgate says...
2:37am Wed 10 Oct 12