Harlow Council set to respond to Latton Priory planning application
Harlow Council / Mon 7th Oct 2024 at 02:28pm
HARLOW Council’s Planning Portfolio Holder, Councillor Alastair Gunn, has confirmed that the council is preparing a formal response to the Latton Priory planning application, focusing on the needs of Harlow residents.
An outline planning application for the proposed Latton Priory development has been submitted to Epping Forest District Council. Public consultation on the submission is due to close on 11 October 2024.
The site, which is located north of Rye Hill Road, falls within the Epping Forest District but would neighbour Harlow’s southern border.
The plans have been submitted by Commercial Estates Projects Ltd and Hallam Land and are for up to 1,340 homes.
The application also proposes residential care and supported accommodation, a local centre with a mix of facilities, primary and secondary schools, greenspaces including playing fields, and new highway, cycle and pedestrian routes.
Councillor Alastair Gunn, Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Garden Town and Planning, said: “The proposed Latton Priory development is right on Harlow’s border. Whilst not in the district, it would have a big impact on much of the town. It is important Harlow residents are aware of the application and of their own right to respond to it.
“We at Harlow Council will be submitting a formal response and have been reviewing the application in detail. Our response will be focused on the needs of Harlow residents, on how to secure the best possible outcome for them and the town as a whole.
“As with any major proposed development, many Harlow residents will be concerned about Latton Priory. Now is the time to put those concerns forward. However, we should acknowledge that if developments like Latton Priory can be delivered in the right way, there are ways that it can be beneficial for Harlow.
“That’s why our response to the Latton Priory planning application will be about what is best for our town and its residents. That is what we will be focused on, guided by the council’s missions of securing investment for Harlow’s future, to rebuild our town and renew our neighbourhoods.”
The application (EPF/1793/24) will be considered by Epping Forest District Council’s planning committee.
Details and a full description of the development can be found at: https://eppingforestdc.my.site.com/pr/s/planning-application/a0hTv000001vZuwIAE/epf179324?c__r=Arcus_BE_Public_Register&tabset-dc51c=2
Pete
2024-10-07 14:40:57
When are you going to let & build Council property's for harlow people that need housing , my son has just been kicked of band 4 , has 14 year old daughter , what dose harlow council do. Let's outside districts Build large flats , but not for the Harlow people. Get a grip and start looking after your own ,
Louise
2024-10-07 16:21:52
This makes me sad. I grew up at the edge of one of the current housing estates and the best thing was how open and green the area was, so much wildlife. I used to see huge groups of deer crossing in the evening’s. My friends and I would play for hours on the fields with all the kids from the surrounding areas. It made my childhood a little bit magical. I know people need housing but the housing being provided in Harlow seems so crammed in with so little green spaces and also so overpriced. I still feel like someone makes a huge, huge profit and it’s not all for the good of the community. If I still lived there I would be devastated. I am still so sad for the people that do.
Nostradamus
2024-10-07 18:15:03
Every one of the hggt pfp projects will add to the overload of Harlow and will only benefit Epping and East Herts Councils, they will collect the Council taxes. Epping Council could build the Latton development at Epping Town and East Herts in Hertford but they know that just like the road proposed from Gilston near Sawbridgeworth their electorate will reject it and them. They therefore dump on Harlow and our Council has been naive enough to think there's any benefits for Harlow.
Resident
2024-10-07 19:12:51
Will objections be ignored like all the others have for the HGGT developments? There is no benefit to Harlow, we are being hemmed in by housing developments for other areas on all sides. This shouldn't be allowed to go ahead, It's a blatant case of nimbyism by Epping. Their housing but on greenspace on our border.
Rob
2024-10-07 20:04:16
I can’t see any positives for Harlow if this is allowed to go ahead. Harlow itself is just being swallowed up in developments on all sides with little if any upgrades to its support infrastructure.
Mr Derek Clark
2024-10-07 20:18:37
What a ridiculous plan. Epping might as well change it's name to Harlow.
Hey Big Spender
2024-10-07 22:45:54
This development should be geographically nearer to Epping, not so close to the Harlow border. Cannot see the logic in building so close to Harlow, only for the residents of said development pay council tax to Epping Forest District Council. Let Epping have the disruption and inconvenience. I hope that Latton Priory will be protected from this eyesore development.
Seamus
2024-10-08 09:34:23
During construction, by the developers own roads assesment, Rye Hill Road will have over 560 extra vehicle trips to and from the site including large hgv's, large lgv's and hundreds of trades. Most of these will come from the M11 and will be directed towards Epping and then turn into the Epping end of Rye Hill Road and down what is best, a country lane and onto the building site. Add to that and upon completion, those 1,340 homes will have at least one car, more likely two and even more if kids grow into their 30's in their parents homes. Let's take the medium two cars. Just on that one estate an extra 2,680 cars doing multiple trips down Rye Hill Road. Even the Regional Director of Operations Directorate, East Region National Highways says no planning permission should be applied before november 29th due to incomplete information by the applicant under the strategic roads network framework. Don't forget, Rye Hill Road entrance on London road is also on a sharp bend. Just from a safety point of view, even the highways department do not think they have enough information to say this is a safe development according to its road infrastructure. This development is unsafe in it's construction and in operation due to proposed access roads and that's before you even mention all that traffic emerging at the other end, right into the path of St James Primary School at the Harlow end. Come on guy's if ever there was a development in Harlow where you could guarranty there would be deaths due to it's road infrastructure, Latton Priory would be it.
paul t
2024-10-09 04:53:24
surely the boundaries need some redress. This development is closer Harlow than Epping and will affect Harlow more than Epping.
Jo
2024-11-02 10:11:35
No homes built now go to harlow people , there all from London and surrounding boroughs and it has been like this for years now , harlow should look after harlow people , the housing officer has made himself clear only his own race will be housed as a matter of urgency and everybody else repeatedly pushed to the back of the queue and be respected .a recorded conversation between him and a person known to me heard him talk down to and disrespect this person and so social services were made aware as this person had just won his children and he was put in a room in a halfway house with three kids and desperately needed housing and the housing officer was so rude to him as the person was an Englishman so social services warned the housing officer about his disrespectful behaviour , I do not believe any of these homes will go to harlow people based on this and I for one want to move from harlow now and will if this goes ahead , crimes through the roof , stabbings all the time it’s almost as bad as London now ,
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