This is what we will lose

Just so everyone is clear this is the AONB Barrets plan
to build on....

A call to arms!

Following Barratts public consultation into the Wades Farm development, a massive 95% of the people who returned the questionnaires to Barratts said that they did not want this development to go ahead - the reaction from Barratts?  The full planning application has just been received! 

Please see details below on how to object to the planning application and if anyone needs help with this, please let us know.  Please remember that everyone in your household can email or write a letter to Stroud District Council (SDC) and if you have any friends who aren't local, but who feel strongly about this, they can also write into SDC.  Your emails and letters are very important in the campaign to defeat this development!  If Barratts manage to break through into the AONB, then other areas in the Slad Valley will be vulnerable including Grange Fields and the fields alongside Folly Lane.

PLEASE HELP TO STOP THE
DEVELOPMENT OF HOUSES AT WADES FARM
How can you help? We need as many people as possible to express their opposition to this development. PLEASE write a letter or email to the Planning Department at Stroud District Council. This can be done by everyone in your household. You can use the points listed opposite as a starting point if you wish, though you must express your own concerns. Suggested pointsYou may wish to include in your letter some of the following planning objections:
Increasing pressure on road traffic and services
The proposed development is on an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Detrimental effect on landscape and wildlife
Further loss of agricultural land 
Please add your own concerns; schooling & traffic for example

Planning reference S.11/0812/FUL

Don’t forget to add your name & address/emailYour email/letter must be submitted by June 1st, 2011

Post to:Stroud District Council Planning Office:
Ebley Mill, Westward Road
Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 4UB

　
Stroud District Council Planning Office Please add your own name/addressEbley Mill, or email hereWestward Road
Stroud
Gloucestershire GL5 4UB
May 2011
Dear Sir/Madam
Wades Farm,
Planning reference S.11/0812/FUL
Planning@stroud.gov.uk

Slad Valley Pictures

A couple more taken recently..

National Coverage

Campaign picked up by national newspaper - a small piece but shows the potential development will not proceed un-noticed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1372584/At-A-march-FAVOUR-cuts.html

Contact Details

Sorry to hear that the contact tab is working for some of you, so just for clarity if you want to get in touch with us please use the contact details below:

Contact details are Elaine Barwell / Simon Arundel (Jt Chair)      

barwellelaine@yahoo.co.uk

tel: 01453 766825

SSUD Gathers Support

The MP for Stroud, the towns mayor, former MP & members of the Public gather to show their support in preventing further houses being built across the valley

On Swifts Hill

"When I saw the photograph taken from Swifts Hill posted on 15 February, this poem, written last week, seemed destined to join it!" Sheila Maddock 2011

 

ON SWIFTS HILL

Wildlife haven, place for picnics, Swifts Hill

Guards the gateway to Slad. Here you can gaze

Miles to the silver ribbon of Severn,

Plunge through beech woods to the valley below,

From the hummocky top hear skylarks sing,

Watch kestrels hover, housemartins soar and

Swifts swoop as they circle their feeding ground.

Underfoot is a carpet of flowers,

Orchids and other rare species, food for

Once common butterflies, moths and bees,

All dependent on this ancient grassland,

Fed by minerals in its limestone bed.

Farms in the quiet valley below doze

Unsuspecting in their patchwork fields, while

In the hazy east, suburban Stroud snakes

Voraciously towards Wades Farm - and Slad.