Planning application for 25 houses on New Road

I would draw residents' attention to the notice on the back of the Henley Standard Friday 10th January. It states a planning application for 25 houses on New Road is being made.

Posted by: David Bartholomew | 09/01/2025 3:57 pm

The application will be on the Agenda for the parish council's next planning meeting on monday 24th feb at 1900 in the Memorial Hall. Hope to see some residents there as I believe the developer may be there to give a short presentation. The Agenda for the meeting is on this site, but currently also included the amendments to Taylor Wimpey applications.

Posted by: Joanne Stone | 21/02/2025 9:30 am

I would imagine that every plot has rights to connect into the road for the purposes of access and services connections. It’s likely that residents deeds will contain details of the rights granted and also any obligations that run with those rights. It is also possible (and therefore worth checking) to see if individual plot owners have the right to repair/maintain/improve the road and services in default of it being carried out by others! If the road is ‘public’ then the authorities might too!

Posted by: Peter Boros | 20/02/2025 6:13 pm

Tanya, these are very good points that you should make in response to the application. Link on the other thread on this topic.

Posted by: David Bartholomew | 20/02/2025 7:36 am

New Road and Crowsley Road are Private Roads which are not maintained by the council. The Transport plan states that traffic is minimal on both roads as an argument that the road can accommodate an increase of at least 50 cars, but fails to identify that the reason for low volume traffic is due to the design and nature.It appears that this fact has been omitted on purpose. As raised by Charles, does anyone know how the developer can have access rights for this level of development ?

Posted by: Tanya Warnford-Davis | 20/02/2025 12:18 am

There are notices pinned at the 2 fields / areas in question as well as one up at the top of New Road (near Mill Lane). I took a photo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18sk6GQjemcXOXSENU8nnGbxKeTKCt1iz/view?usp=sharing

Posted by: Rhiannon Davies | 22/01/2025 10:00 am

There is nothing on the SODC site at present but I suspect an application is imminent.

Posted by: David Bartholomew | 20/01/2025 12:47 pm

I presume therefore that it is the land registered at HM Land Registry under title number ON 164525, of which the proprietor is Lina Pierana Game, who gave her address on the Companies House website as an address in Twyford. If it is that land it is only subject to the very limited restrictive covenants contained in the conveyance between John Baskerville (1) and Reginald Heber Mardon (2) to which, if I recall correctly, almost all land in Shiplake is subject. See the HM Land Registry website!

Posted by: Nicholas Blandy | 14/01/2025 6:47 pm

I have also received confirmation that the proposed site is the land between the retirement village and New Road.

Posted by: David Bartholomew | 14/01/2025 2:07 pm

Woolf Bond Planning Ltd confirmed to me today that the plots concerned are the one bordering onto shiplake Meadows and the one to the north of it next door to Ridgways and opposite Starlings.

Posted by: Graham Vitty | 13/01/2025 8:14 pm

If details of the covenant are available, I’d be happy to take a look. Restrictive covenants are tricky things, but have rather unusual elements to them including a widening of beneficiaries as the land changes hands. As far as the private road is concerned, quite a bit of information came to light when the Neighbourhood Plan V1 was in prep.

Posted by: Peter Boros | 11/01/2025 10:41 am

Is there an actual Planning Application in place ?

Posted by: Graham Vitty | 11/01/2025 8:26 am

Oh no. Worse fears confirmed. I didn't see the Henley Standard with the detail; presumably no plans up yet? I've been really saddened to see the amount of lights up at the development 'next door': Shiplake Meadows. Whilst they're supposed to follow dark skies policy & that was a condition (& in theory they 'do' if you count that they have used bollards) the amount of bollards is astonishing as well as the lumens in the bulbs they have used. Does not bode well for a development in the countryside

Posted by: Rhiannon Davies | 10/01/2025 6:18 pm

I agree with what Nicholas has said. As far as I can establish, New Road is an unmade and unregistered Public Right of Way. If anyone has information to the contrary, it would be useful to hear.

Posted by: David Bartholomew | 10/01/2025 11:10 am

My guess on the status of New Road would be that it was defined as a new road open to the public on the definitive map attached to an award under the Enclosure Acts in the 19th C. It runs from the centre of the village as was then being established towards the church. All over the country there are roads called simply New Road or Green Lane, for example, which derive their names in that way. Thus it is probably simply an unmade public road, not owned by anyone.

Posted by: Nicholas Blandy | 10/01/2025 11:02 am

Covenants have to be enforced by the beneficiary and this seldom happens. They are not a planning issue. If the applicant does not own all the necessary land and the actual ownership is uncertain/unregistered, I suspect the notice will have been published as a statutory requirement to see if there are any claimants. For example, who owns New Road itself and the adjoining verges?

Posted by: David Bartholomew | 10/01/2025 9:33 am

If relating to the field adjoining Shiplake Meadows development, I understood there was a covenant on that field so it couldn't be developed? Presume New Road is a private road, does the developer have access rights and developments rights to that private road?

Posted by: Charles Bonfield | 09/01/2025 6:07 pm

We’ve been expecting something like this 😕

Posted by: Sara Morse | 09/01/2025 5:17 pm