Aims and Purpose
EVADE is a residents’ led community group, centered around the Turnditch, Cowers Lane, Hazelwood, Idridgehay and Windley villages within the Ecclesbourne Valley. We aim to work with the local council, planners, developers, landowners, environmental and heritage groups, to ensure that any development within the area is appropriate in scale and nature, meets an identified need, is sustainable, and is in harmony with the existing environment.
We are not against all development in the area.
We are against developments that would fundamentally and detrimentally change the nature of the existing villages.
In particular by:
We are not against all development in the area.
We are against developments that would fundamentally and detrimentally change the nature of the existing villages.
In particular by:
- Changing the linear nature of the villages by developing areas of land set back from existing thoroughfares and setting a precedent for further development.
- Increasing the population without corresponding improvements in the local infrastructure, schools and facilities
- Damaging the historic boundaries and features associated with the deer parks of the Duffield Frith
- Detrimentally affecting the amenity value of the countryside in terms of public access to the countryside via public footpaths, bridleways etc.
- Detrimentally affecting the natural fauna and flora of the area
- Building on productive farmland when alternative brown field or non-productive sites are available within the Amber Valley district having better access to infrastructure and public transport
- Detrimentally affecting the flow of the rivers and brooks, or natural flood plains such that damaging flooding may occur exacerbated by climate change uncertainty.
- Building housing in excess of the actual proven requirements in the district.
- In relation to any proposed development we will campaign to ensure that planning consents are only granted where:
- the housing would be of a good standard and design in keeping with the existing housing in the area
- there would be an appropriate mix of housing, plans are not to be altered subsequently and conditions set on approval are to be enforced
- the housing would be adequately spaced to preserve the rural ambience of the area
- road safety would be ensured by provision of pedestrian footways, appropriate speed limits and traffic calming measures
- the permissions granted would include provision for, or be dependent upon the provision of, suitable infrastructure and facilities to ensure a sustainable, practical and environmentally acceptable rural village environment.