Legal action threat on plan for 17 new homes at end of Shrewsbury street
Opponents to a proposed housing estate on a former recreation ground in Shrewsbury say they are willing to take legal action against Shropshire Council to prevent the development.
The Greenfield’s Community Group has set up a CrowdJustice page and says they will take the fight to the courts to prevent 17 homes being built on land at the end of Falstaff Street in Greenfields.
More than 240 people have signed up to object to the plans and support the legal campaign.
Peter Day, spokesman for the group said: "We believe that this land is part of our communities open space and recreational land that supports the health and wellbeing of our residents and as such greater consultation within the community should have taken place, as well as planning regulations that apply to recreation grounds or loss of open space applied.
"Local records sow that there has been a park at the end of Falstaff Street for over 100 years and prior to this it was farmland.
"The plans submitted are directly across a Sustrans Cycle path and a pathway used by primary school children on their way to and from school.
"Sustrans data collected so that Shrewsbury could become a cycle town show that there are 600 unique journeys made every week by bikes through Greenfields.
"This plan breaches Shropshire Council's memorandum of agreement with Sustrans to ensure that cycle routes created using the Lottery funded ‘Connect 2’ scheme would be kept open and accessible for 40 years and its stated objectives."
Many of the objections which have already been lodged with Shropshire Council on its planning portal regard traffic, the local infrastructure not being able to cope and the loss of green space.
The plans for the development, which will have 17 homes, two of which will be affordable housing, a new access road and parking, have been put forward by CSE Developments (Shropshire) Ltd.
The application will be considered by the council's planning committee later this year.
