Golden Hay Field Development

The image here is an snapshot from the Planning Document on the Tewkesbury Borough Council (TBC) Planning Portal,

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This shows the modified entrance in the north corner of the field and the houses arranged around the northern and western sides with a green space leading to the remainder of the field. There is a turning area for larger vehicles in the centre of the field, e.g. refuse trucks, delivery wagons.

The green space and the extra planting of headgerows and trees was a requirement to meet biodiversity needs and is intended to provide a net gain in biodiversity.  There are 11 of the UK's bat species that forage in the field area and we are very concerned that this will be impacted by the loss of green area, and hope that the extra planting has the desired effect.

There are 24 Pre-Conditions for the start of building work. The first visible evidence of the developer meeting these is the requirement to carry out a full coverage archeological survey on the area of land that is being developed. We understand this is being funded by DB Land and Planning as the original promoter - it’s a sizeable cost but fairly standard given the interesting geophysics and trial trenching earlier in the process (2023). This is part of the developer pays principle and is known as rescue archaeology or developer-led archaeology under the Planning Policy Guidance (PPG) codes of practice. There is very little chance anything they find with stop development - it’s about recording and (for finds) recovering rather than anything else.

The full list of conditions is reference 25/00054/CONDIS on the TBC planning portal