Cranbrooktowncentre

06/01/2021

At last some much-needed fantastic news!

11/12/2020

TOWN CENTRE UPDATE

East Devon District Council’s Strategic Planning Committee will meet again on 15th December 2020 to discuss a revised proposal regarding the town centre. This is a very important meeting for Cranbrook. Over 80% of residents want to see delivery of a town centre sooner rather than later or not at all and therefore you may wish to show your support by writing to the Committee.

Please go to our dedicated website page for the contact details of the Committee and a suggested letter of support should you wish to write.

Town Centre Update   Before the consortium of developers (Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Hallam Land Management) can submit a planning application for the development of the town centre in Cranbrook, they need to evidence community engagement and the level of support for their proposals. Therefore th...

08/12/2020

EAST DEVON NEW COMMUNITY PARTNERS UPDATE

The East Devon New Community partners (the developer consortium) have updated their dedicated Cranbrook town centre website www.cranbrooktowncentre.com following the helpful feedback from the previous consultation with a letter from the East Devon New Community Partners, updated plans and illustrative material.

07/12/2020

EAST DEVON'S STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE DECIDING ON TOWN CENTRE

The agenda and supporting documents for the meeting of East Devon District Council's Strategic Planning Committee was published today at
https://democracy.eastdevon.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=154&MId=1482&Ver=4.

The recommendations on page 25 of the report are kept very vague and we will need your support now more than ever if we all want the town centre to be delivered. We will let you know on this page in the coming days how you can help us influence the decision makers.

View the full list of current East Devon councillors and information about the council political composition

04/12/2020

TOWN CENTRE DEVELOPMENT – THERE’S HOPE!

We have been very quiet in our communications about the town centre development since East Devon District Council’s Strategic Planning Committee on 22 October 2020.

The developer consortium, the East Devon New Community partners, and East Devon District Council have been continuing to discuss and negotiate the developers’ town centre proposal.

The Strategic Planning Committee is scheduled to consider an enhanced proposal at their next meeting on 15 December 2020 at 2:00pm. Once the agenda and supporting documents for that meeting have been published we will inform you all – watch this space!

22/10/2020

TOWN CENTRE DECISION

The meeting of East Devon District Council’s Strategic Planning Committee concluded this afternoon and that Committee voted for the development of a supplementary planning document for the town centre as per the planning officers’ recommendations and it rejected the developers’ offer.

We at the Town Council are extremely disappointed that the town centre in Cranbrook will now not be delivered in the near future.

15/10/2020

TOWN CENTRE DECISION

East Devon District Council’s Strategic Planning Committee will decide on the future of Cranbrook’s town centre on Thursday, 22 October 2020 at 2:00pm.

The agenda and supporting documents have been published at https://democracy.eastdevon.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=154&MId=1558&Ver=4.

The meeting will be held virtually in public and we would urge any residents who are interested in attending and speaking to register to do so with East Devon District Council before the meeting.

81.7% of respondents to our poll at https://poll.app.do/development-of-cranbrook-town-centre have voted in support of the developers’ proposal. Let’s hope a decision will be made next Thursday which is representative of this community.

Help inform East Devon District Council's Strategic Planning Committee regarding the community's preference when determining the future delivery of the town centre in Cranbrook. All relevant information is published on our website at https://www.cranbrooktowncouncil.gov.uk/town-centre-2/

29/09/2020

STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE UPDATE

Further to our recent posts, East Devon District Council’s Strategic Planning Committee is now re-scheduled to meet on Thursday, 22 October 2020 at 2:00 pm to decide between two options for the town centre development in Cranbrook. The agenda and supporting documents will be published a week before the meeting at https://democracy.eastdevon.gov.uk/ieListMeetings.aspx?CommitteeId=154.

One proposal by the consortium of developers, the East Devon New Community Partners, would see the delivery of the town centre in the near future.

The other proposal by East Devon District Council planning officers would see the development of a supplementary planning document or masterplan for the town centre.

If you haven’t already voted in our poll at https://poll.app.do/development-of-cranbrook-town-centre please do so before the meeting on 22 October 2020. On that page we also published some more details about the two proposals. Thank you.

Help inform East Devon District Council's Strategic Planning Committee regarding the community's preference when determining the future delivery of the town centre in Cranbrook. All relevant information is published on our website at https://www.cranbrooktowncouncil.gov.uk/town-centre-2/

16/09/2020

TOWN CENTRE LATEST

Today we have received a notification from East Devon District Council that they have cancelled the meeting of the Strategic Planning Committee on 23 September 2020 at which the future of the town centre in Cranbrook would have been decided.

We have been advised that East Devon District Council will “advise regarding the new date as soon as possible” and we will, of course, keep you all posted.

15/09/2020

TOWN CENTRE UPDATE

On Wednesday, 23 September 2020, East Devon District Council’s Strategic Planning Committee will decide on the future of the town centre in Cranbrook.

Sadly, East Devon planning officers are recommending to that Committee the development of a masterplan (“Supplementary Planning Document” or SPD), which is directly opposed to what the Town Council has been negotiating for on behalf of the Cranbrook community. We believe that there is no clarity over what can be delivered via an SPD, whether it can be funded and how long it’s going to take to deliver. We believe that the developers’ proposal should be supported which would deliver a town centre within the next two years. 81% of respondents to our poll at https://poll.app.do/development-of-cranbrook-town-centre share our opinion.

All the documents, including the officers’ report, is available at:

https://democracy.eastdevon.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=154&MId=1515&Ver=4

The Strategic Planning Committee will meet in public and any member of the public is entitled to attend and speak at the meeting.

If you feel strongly that Cranbrook needs a town centre and it needs it now, please help us by either attending the meeting and speaking in support of a timely delivery of the town centre or write to the Committee members.

We published relating information including a poll at https://poll.app.do/development-of-cranbrook-town-centre. If you haven’t already completed the poll, please may we invite you again to do so.

View the full list of current East Devon councillors and information about the council political composition

24/08/2020

TOWN CENTRE UPDATE

Before the consortium of developers (Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Hallam Land Management) can submit a planning application for the development of the town centre in Cranbrook, they need to evidence community engagement and the level of support for their proposals. Therefore they have launched a dedicated website with an online exhibition and questionnaire for residents to communicate their preferences at www.cranbrooktowncentre.com. Normally consultation would take the form of a display and drop-in event locally but, because of current restrictions, this is not possible.

This consultation is in addition to the survey which the Town Council has been carrying out recently to evidence to the local planning authority East Devon District Council whether or not residents prefer the delivery of the consortiums proposals for the town centre in the near future or East Devon District Council’s proposals to prepare a supplementary planning document and masterplan for possible development over a much longer period of time.

This consultation describes a comprehensive set of proposals for Cranbrook Town centre – as proposed by the East Devon New Community partners along with specialist Town Centre developers HDD Developments.

28/07/2020

TOWN CENTRE POLL SNAPSHOT RESULTS

Thanks to those of you who have requested the outcome of the poll so far. The poll has not closed yet and so far this is the result. Please help us to be able to represent the community's preference by completing the poll at https://poll.app.do/development-of-cranbrook-town-centre. Thanks!