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Villagers vote 'no' to redevelopment
VILLAGERS have given the thumbs down to a proposed redevelopment in Bradwell.
A referendum, called for at a meeting of residents, was held last Friday in relation to an outline planning application which has been submitted by Newburgh Estates to transform their 15-acre Newburgh Engineering site at Netherside.
The company wants to build 150 homes, along with a medical centre, new supermarket, a community social centre and pre-school, a caf/restaurant and offices and industrial space for start-up businesses.
As part of an ongoing consultation process, residents were asked to vote 'yes' or 'no' to the question: "Do you support the outline planning application for the Newburgh site in its present form and scale?"
The result of the poll, conducted at the Memorial Hall by Derbyshire Dales District Council, on behalf of Bradwell Parish Council, saw 301 people vote 'no', with only 50 people voting 'yes'.
Turnout for the poll was 29.57 per cent, with 351 people out of 1,187 eligible electors taking part.
Tomorrow night (Friday), the Peak District National Park Authority will be holding a presentation and question-and-answer session at the Memorial Hall, between 7pm and 9pm.
Bradwell parish councillors will be at a surgery in the Methodist Hall from 7.30pm on Friday, February 13, ahead of the parish council deciding its official response to the plans on Monday, February 16, again at the Methodist Hall at 7.30pm.
People can view the scheme and give comments online at www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/planning ( NP/DDD/1208/1089), or they can write to the Planning Service, Peak District National Park Authority, Aldern House, Baslow Road, Bakewell, DE45 1AE.
The deadline for comments is February 20.
The Authority hopes to consider the application in March or April.
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