West of Waterlooville Implementation Officer
My name is Jacky Wilson, and I have the rather long job title West of Waterloovile Implementation Officer. I work for both Winchester City Council and Havant Borough Council but am physically more often in Winchester than Havant, when I’m not on-site!
My role is to make sure that the developers for this site deliver and do what they have either said they are going to do - by virtue of their approved planning applications - or what they are required to do by either conditions attached to the planning permission, or details in the signed legal agreement (called a Section 106).
This will vary over the life of the project and ranges from ensuring the correct tree protection is put in place at the appropriate time, to when they start building that the size of a house is the same as agreed on the plan(s).
The idea of this Blog is to move away from confusing planning jargon and present a regular ‘newsletter’ on what’s happening around and about the site. It’s written in an informal manner and is intended to offer information in a quick and easy manner, hopefully answering some of the multitudes of questions that local people and other interested parties have, before they’re asked.
Community Worker
Hello!
My name is Mark Maitland and I have recently been appointed as the Community Worker for the major development to the West of Waterlooville. The appointment is initially on a part-time basis so I’m employed to work two days a week – in a couple of years this will become a full time post As yet I do not have anywhere on site from which to work, so I’m not as visible as I’d like to be to the new residents. However, an office is being arranged and in the meantime I will be making regular visits to the site and can be contacted using the following details:
Telephone: 01962 848518
Mobile: 07980 732129
Email: mmaitland@winchester.gov.uk
One of my responsibilities is to help with the integration of the new residents with the existing communities and much of my time so far has been spent contacting and meeting representatives from various local groups and organisations to identify any key areas of concern. I also recently circulated a news-sheet to the residents at Duke’s Meadow to introduce myself.
In order to keep people as up to date with the work I’m doing, I will have my own ‘Community’ page on this site. Using that page you will also be able to access a copy of the ‘Community Strategy’ for the development which outlines all of the ‘Actions’ needed to make this a vibrant, integrated and sustainable community. You will also be able to access copies of the ‘News-sheets’ as they are produced.
Please use the page to ask any questions you have about my role, to raise any concerns about the development or even just to say hello, so I know you’re out there!
I look forward to hearing from you.
Dear Jacky,
I am a website assistant at the Geographical Association, an educational charity supporting geography teachers. I am currently putting online a GCSE level decision making activity based around the issues of using Greenfield and Brownfield Sites for new Housing Developments. See http://www.geography.org.uk/projects/ks4ict/idea16 to get a flavour of the page in development (accompanying powerpoint and handouts are yet be added).
As you can see, the author has used the development around Waterlooville as an example and to enhance this page I was hoping to use the a) one of the photographs of the area where development will be taking place (in particular the picture of the protected tree) and b) the map of the proposed develeopment (as used in the banner of this blog).
I wondered if you could point me in the right direction to gain permission to use either or both of these images on our open-access site for educational purposes.
Thank you, looking foward to your reply.
Kind Regards,
Benjamin.
Cool site, love the info.
Great site…keep up the good work. I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,
A definite great read…:)
-Bill-Bartmann
Help ! just seen some new plans that came through the door yesterday
looks like the field behind my house I thought was to be allotments is now to be a buliding site
I posted the mail detailed below on the Newlands site.However if anyone can answer some of my questions would really appreciated it.
As a resident of Purbrook Gardens (80) I have an obvious interest in the location of houses intended for construction directly to the rear of my property.
On previous plans I have seen there were no plans to build houses directly behind the town houses at Purbrook Gardens (am sure it was ear marked for allotments) why the change ?
It seems that of all other residents that are to be affected by this new development Purbrook Gardens is the most directly affected i.e everywhere else has either a main road industrial estate or trees or fields separating them from any construction yet we have it on our doorstep and potentially have to live on a building site for years.
I am not against the development and understand probably more than most the need for affordable housing etc as bringing up a young family with four children is far from easy.
However we have worked hard for years and have a happy and safe home so would appreciate my concerns to be taken in to account as we could be massively affected by this development !
● What are the sizes of the houses to be built on the site directly to the rear of my property ?
● Will the new houses be positioned so to over look my property ?
● What proximity of the nearest new home to mine (80 Purbrook grds)?
● What will be the proximity of the road to access the new homes to my property ?
● As the size of the gardens of the townhouses in Purbrook gardens are very small would there be an opportunity to purchase additional land to improve on this for the residents ?
I have some other real concerns
My first concern is one of access to the new homes
Regards the use of the alleyway between my property (80) and that of (81).
As I am led to believe the alleyway is private and for use of the residents to access there properties and “not” a public footpath.
However it already acts as a public footpath for every Dog owner and rambler in the area who are too lazy to use the public footpath access on the London road. (most are considerate)
However I have had a number of near misses with people on push bikes, mini motos’s and dog owners letting dogs off leads to run though the alleyway as we exit our property (I have a 2 yr old and 3 yr old so its a real worry that they could be hit my a push bike )
We have also had lots of Damage to the fencing over the years by people learning over the fence into our property and bikes scraping down it etc
The alleyway is a narrow space that echo’s noise between the two buildings and both my property and (81) front door open onto it.
My concern is that it will be use in the same way by all the new residents of the development as it will certainly be the shortest route to the shops etc for any home built to the rear of Purbrook Gardens and hence the problems we currently have will just get worse..
My other concerns are of Health and safety
Its obvious form the plans that we will be living right on top a building site when works starts and hence have to noise and other pollutants and have real concerns living so close to a building site with young children and want to know how you intend protecting the site for access by inquisitive children etc.
The other is in relation to the Gas plant near to Purbrook Gardens.Has the proximity of the new houses to the gas plant been looked into and are there any health and safety report’s available ?
I look forward to receiving your reply
Mr L.Cole
Hi i live nearby and i want to no how i can go about putting my name down for 1 of the new houses or if that is even possible i would be great full for any information you can give me.
Thanks
Mrs M lambird
Hi,
I was walking along the footpath south of Duke’s Meadow, when I came upon what looks like a newly dug, large pond. At the moment it is dry. Is this part of a landscaping scheme? Can you tell me any more details?
Thanks,
Mike Newey