News Items
Main Street Car Park Drainage Works
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Please note that, on the instructions of the Environment Agency, there will be engineering works near the underpass in the car park and also on a small section of the promenade. This is to improve surface water drainage from the ornamental gardens to the estuary. The work will take approximately 10 weeks from mid March 2009.
Town Council seeks views on the Tourist Information Centre
Thursday, 26 February 2009
The Town Council has launched a survey of businesses and residents/visitors regarding the Tourist Information Centre (TIC) in Grange-over-Sands.
South Lakeland District Council (SLDC) provides the principle funding for the TIC, plus a £4,000 per annum contribution from the Town Council. In the recent past the service has been reduced on account of a funding shortage. The Town Council has been informed that SLDC intends to save a further £60,000 from its total TIC budget for 2009/10, and that the closure of the Grange TIC is one of the options being considered.
Open Day - Allocation of Land Local Development Framework Maps - Saturday 28 February 2009
Friday, 20 February 2009
Open Day - Allocation of Land Local Development Framework Maps.
28 February 2009
Grange-over-Sands Town Council is holding an open day for the public to view maps showing sites in Grange which may be nominated by the District Council as suitable for development. The event will be held in the Victoria Hall, Main Street, Grange-over-Sands, LA11 6DP, on Saturday 28 February 2009, from 10am to 4pm. Visitors will be able to leave comments about the maps for consideration by the Town Council
South Lakeland District Council is working on a set of documents called the Local Development Framework (LDF) that all Local Authorities are required to produce to replace the current Local Plan. It has issued a “Discussion Paper” on the production of an “Allocations of Land DPD”, one of the portfolio of documents which will comprise the LDF. Attached to the Discussion Paper, is a set of “Sites Under Consideration Maps” with potential development sites marked in red. There is also a “Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report”, which describes the proposed methodology for evaluating alternative sites in terms of economic, social and environmental sustainability.
The background to the Sites Under Consideration Maps is the requirement, determined by the Regional Spatial Strategy for the North West, to provide an additional 8,800 new dwellings in South Lakeland (outside the National Park), and 98 hectares of employment land, in the period 2003-2025, Of these totals, SLDC has suggested, in its Core Strategy Options Document issued in May 2008, an allocation of 880 homes and 10 hectares of employment land in the Grange Area (a “Key Service Centre”). The Town Council opposed these suggestions in its response to the Core Strategy Options.
Of the 880 dwellings, 125 had already been built by early 2008 and there were planning consents for 95 not yet implemented. This left 660 to be provided between 2008 and 2025. Of these, 132 (20%) have been earmarked for Allithwaite and Cartmel., leaving 528 for Grange over the next 17 years.
20 February 2009
Park Road Gardens 80th Anniversary Celebrations - June 12 to 21 2009
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
This year it will be 80 years since the Bandstand was removed from its original location on the promenade to the specially built gardens of Park Road.
Besses O'Th'Barn who played at the opening of the Park in 1929 will be playing in the Bandstand on Sunday 21st June at 2pm to round off a week of special events.
Civic Society Welcomes Footpath Decision - 11 February 2009
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
The Planning Inspectorate has today announced its decision on the future of footpaths over the railway in Grange at Clare House and Berner’s Lanes. The decision to add these two routes to the definitive footpath map, made in draft by the County Council last year, has been confirmed after a Public Inquiry to hear an objection from Network Rail. A further objection by South Lakeland District Council had earlier been withdrawn.