News on proposed escarpment development
I hope you may have read the two articles in the Kent Messenger Extra article recently (Martello towers plans face opposition & Bid for village green status to halt development, dated: 13th August 2010) about the proposed escarpment development. The journalist did a good job except that where it says “I have proposed that Mr Forge gives tower number six to the Sandgate Community Trust” I actually said “I have proposed that Mr Forge gives tower number six and all the rest of the land to the Sandgate Community Trust”; that way there can be no further development.
We are meeting with John Forge and English Heritage on Wednesday (18/08/10). Following that we may call a public meeting and let Sandgate decide whether they want the development and the threats for further building in the future, a deal or that we should apply for village green status and stop any development in perpetuity.
On the question of village green status I am in the process of preparing the application and I am confident that we have a significant number of evidence givers as defined by the MacAlpine case ie “that ‘significant’ is a matter of impression after analysing the evidence. What matters is that the number of people using the land is sufficient to indicate that it is in general used by the inhabitants of any locality or neighbourhood within a locality”. We have one evidence provider who started using the land for leisure purposes in 1932.
I will not subit the village green application until after Wednesday’s meeting and/or the public meeting.
Speak soon
Kind regards
David
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