10/5/2012
Spring Newsletters are hitting the streets
15/03/2012
Is Sheffield trying to force Rotherham to increase it's housing targets? With an estimated 80,000 population increase Sheffield is looking to other areas to help out.
23/02/2012
Spatial Planning and Housing for the Sheffield City Region
Some interesting reading, please remember that RMBC say the proposed houses have nothing to do with migration from Sheffield. (click on logo to view)
13/02/2012
Council Release LDF Feedback
Please click Here to see a .pdf of the document
4/01/2012
Ding Ding Round Three
As a New Year dawns we have the prospect of yet another round of consultation to look forward to. Could the Council not have covered everything with one consultation, instead they have spent tens of thousands of pounds of tax payers money to acheive a result that they knew before they even started. At the last count some 88% of people who expressed an opinion said 'No' to building on green belt. Surely a simple questionaire sent to residents in proposed areas would have been far more efficient.
The Great British Property Scandal
During December 2011 Channel 4 hosted a series of programs under the title 'The Great British Property Scandal' highlighting the fact we have over 600,000 empty houses in the UK. You can view these programs on catchup or click the link below.
We welcome the new group formed In Dinnington/ Anston and would like to wish them every success in their fight.
The Rotherham Action Group are members of the local community who are strongly against plans to build on Green Belt land throughout the borough. The Action group was formed in May 2009 and we now have a Commitee and meet on a regular basis.
In our local area of Greasbrough/Rawmarsh the Council were planning to build 3600 new homes but as the RSS (Regional Spatial Strategy)has been scrapped has now been reduced to 2600 on Green Belt land, its called the Bassingthorpe Farm Development, the size of about 500 football pitches!!
This is also happening in many other Rotherham area's Anston,Bramley,Dinnington,Ravenfield, Wickersley to name but a few.
If you use the link below you can see the whole of Rotherham laid out , find out if they are planning to build near you...use the + & - to enlarge & the hand icon to move the map around.
It is awkward at first but stick with it.
Planning Map