A developer will hold a consultation event next month over plans to build on land at the rear of Chilton Primary School.
In a leaflet to residents Fernham Homes outlines two agricultural fields and a small woodland, scrub area off Pegwell Road and Chalk Hill although no indication is given of how many properties are planned.
The site is in a ‘special landscape area’ which is protected for its open views and sits close to a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Fernham Homes, established in 1999, has developments in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Greater London.
The company will hold the public drop-in event on Tuesday, September 10 between 3pm and 6pm at St Laurence Parish Hall, St Lawrence, Ramsgate.
The leaflet says the informal drop-in is to find out what residents would want at the site. A planning application has not yet been submitted to Thanet council.
In 2020 permission to build six bungalows on a neighbouring plot at Pegwell was refused.
A charm offensive by the charmless perhaps?
Enough is enough ,with all that has been given permission ,enough is enough
Will the last farmer leaving Thanet please lock up afterwards. Thank you.
Some people running thanet need locking up..
Is that the best you can comment with.
Do you eat veg and salad..there be none for you because stupidity got in the way imo
Erm? I’m very obviously PRO farming.
You, on the other hand, are very obviously an imbecile.
This is a beautiful area used by walkers, cyclists, riders etc. we have too much building already. This used to be the garden of England where our food was grown, now we are importing sub standard stuff which travels miles to get here!
It’s a disgrace!
3pm to 6pm on a Tuesday when most people want at work? Very sly
The site is in a ‘special landscape area’ which is protected for its open views and sits close to a Site of Special Scientific Interest
I wonder what T.D.C will decide, or will they as normal put 2 fingers up to the community.
There has already been an awful lot of excavation work done on this site, although TDC claim to have no knowledge of it. No planning application has been submitted to date. The developer wants to involve us locals in planning a development that”will be a project that we will all be proud of”.
Utter tosh!!
I wonder who knew about the excavation work ?? I’m sure it wasn’t exactly quiet.
Maybe T.D.C, as they have no knowledge of it, ought to contact a solicitor, and ask questions as to who done this work, or was it ” underhanded “. But like a lot of things, I don’t really expect the truth to come out.
I used to give this level of monolithic house building in Thanet, a pass because it’s comparable to the three big post-war developments at Millmead, Newington and the Wimpey estate.
There is something nasty, arbitrary and unrelenting about the present building insanity.
The change to Thanet, will be earth shattering, and there is nothing the residents will be able to do about it.
I imagine, if a Thanet wide opinion poll was undertaken 80-90 percent of residents would disagree with this level of development.
It doesn’t matter we are along for the ride and being treated with indifference by greedy and overly influential developers, useless local political non-entities ,algorithm obsessed national bureaucrats and landowners selling farm land for a quick payday.
The cherry on top will be the eventual selling off of the Manston airport complex for housing. This, obviously, was always the long term goal of the owners. They are biding their time to max out the potential value of the land.
The building boom in Thanet is entirely down to the Local Plan. This identifies areas in which development can take place, and other areas which are dedicated to other activities. Such as Aviation, in the case of Manston.
The Government sets the targets for each Local Authority.
Here in Thanet, we had a draft LP which, because it used an earlier version of the Government’s algorithm, had a much lower target. But the draft plan didn’t reserve Manston as aviation only. The noble burghers of Birchington (and others) created a pressure group “Birchington against the Local Plan” which was successful in kicking that particularly LP into the long grass.
The eventually adopted plan, using a later version of the government’s algorithm, had a much bigger housing target, none of which could be built on Manston.
Were TDX to reject a planning application for development in an area the LP showed was set aside for development, that decision would be overturned at appeal.
You’re obsessed with burgers.
It’s also interesting how the neighbouring field by the coastguard cottages that was home to horses just a few months back has since been trashed with no planning permission or regard for the residents who are woken by the sound of diggers and bulldozers am most weekends. Thousand of tonnes of soil has been brought in from what appears to be Haine Road, the landscape has been massively altered, and the council couldn’t care less. Just turning a blind eye.
Have you reported this to the Council?
This is the field they want to develop
Reading between the lines, this is a softening up exercise. There is no planning application made (yet) but there has been some excavation going on. Now they are planting the seed of an idea that this could be a development for housing. They are asking ‘what residents want for the site’. The implication is residents will want ‘something’ other than what is already there. It’s the same trick restaurants use when they ask if you want still or sparkling water so they can sell you bottled water. They don’t mention you are entitled to ask for tap water for free. They are suggesting you could have something you would be proud of, like you are not proud of what is already there.
It’s the trick of psychopaths, used by professionals and criminals alike to ‘engage’ you, make you feel like they are on your side. “We are all in this together.” Doing something for you, what you want.
After the consultation it will all go quiet for a while. But the idea has been planted that you could have ‘something’ there, as if this land is not ‘something’ already just by its very self. And by planting the idea and getting people talking about it (including against it) the seed will germinate and people will start to imagine what that land will look like with housing on it. It’s like trying to tell someone not to think of a flying elephant. Just by using the words you have the vision of a flying elephant.
It’s a tactic of manipulation, well known in the advertising industry. It’s rooted in the theories of modern psychology. And those two connect through Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud who turned early advertising from information pieces into emotionally targeted persuasion techniques.
There is no planning application. But locals are already talking about the excavation works being done there. You can see the works from the road but you are already making the connections. You might think you are objecting but you are engaging in the softening up process.
After the consultation, the objections, the complaints, all will go quiet for a while. Maybe the excavations will stop for a while. Couple of years probably. You will relax, thinking that all is safe. And then they will come back again, watering the seed, letting it germinate. It might take several ‘returns’ but eventually many will have moved on. All will be a little older. The younger generations will have less memory of what was there and the idea they could have ‘something’ will have grown.
This isn’t big brother conspiracy theory. This is everyday marketing and manipulation we are all bombarded with day after day after day from millions of sources.
Sounds to me as if the locals are not at all keen to have houses built on the site, rather than “engaging in the softening-up process”.
Aren’t you people of Ramsgate “local” to Pegwell Bay, or is what goes on a mile or so away irrelevant?
You are absolutely right?!
Chilton school is a very popular school and struggles to fit the children into the space they have .If( and i really hope not) it goes a head it will be another case of no forward thinking about the community and dealing with the population and services that will be needed to cope .
Fingers crossed it won’t happen.
This is TDC go to statement, we didn’t know anything about this ,TDC always turns a blind eye on things and when the S–t hits the fan in comes the statement 😳 we didn’t know anything about this !
Not to worry when all the farmlands gone they can fly in all your fruit and veg into mansion in polluting cargo planes .
The hedgerow is also meant to be protected this will probably go as well or if it puts a stop to the project arsonists (yea right) will burn it down, problem gone much the same as the Chilton pub that burnt down and left as eye saw and now has planning permission granted. funny that NOT
The Chilton, despite having had planning permission for ages, is only ever used as a waste transfer station, by the look of it. This important junction is already ignored by the council and the owner gets away with everything. Currently there are 3 illegsl trailers of waste taking up valuable parking spaces.
I can only imagine the impact of further traffic and parking in the area.
It seems people do have genuine concerns. If you can make it, please do go along on 10 September to share them with Fernham Homes 🙂
As ever, it’s all about supply and demand, the UK has pretty much an open door immigration policy, so lots of people will need housing. Housing will always be more impotant than food ( because we can always import food) so politically , house building is more important, especially so for this government who’ll use house building as a way to conjure up economic activity, of course it’s all likely to back fire after the budget when all the tax increases and rapid departure from our shores of thevtruly wealthy means many have their disposable income much reduced and consumer spending falls, house prices drop ( not necessarily a bad thing within reason) and we risk either having homes that no one wants to buy or developers stop building as the market falls.
The environment is of no real consequence, we’ll trash it any way in the name of net zero, the fiels will have houses on or be smothered innsolar panels.