CVRP

Colne Valley Regional Park (CVRP) letter to Rt. Hon. Matthew Pennycook

Click to view full letter from CVRP to the Minister.

Main points of the letter:

  • CVRP thank the Minister for his stated support for the Colne Valley Regional Park (from the July 2025 adjournment debate)
  • Point out a disconnect between words and actions, with reference to the data centre decision at Manor Farm in Colnbrook (but our points equally apply to a number of government decisions affecting the CVRP)
  • Describe why the Colne Valley Regional Park is an ideal place to pilot a joined-up approach to creating win wins for growth and nature.
  • Invite Mr Pennycook to visit the CVRP to see the unintended consequences of government policy.
  • “Time is short and getting shorter” if we want to achieve the purpose of the adjournment debate namely to protect and restore the Colne Valley Regional Park.

Regards,
Stewart Pomeroy
Colne Valley Park Managing Agent
www.colnevalleypark.org.uk

By R.D.R.A., ago

Draft response to the Government’s consultation on National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)

Message from Colne Valley Regional Park.

Click to view draft response to each policy.

Our key points are:

  • The Colne Valley Regional Park is a special landscape, nature and community resource which deserves an overall protected designation, but does not currently have one. Although it is within the Metropolitan Green Belt, this still makes it vulnerable to piecemeal encroachment without adequate compensation. In the absence of this, the NPPF should say more to protect the Park in other ways.
  • The NPPF should say more about the cumulative impact of speculative (as opposed to planned) development, both authorised and unauthorised.
  • Cross-boundary cooperation should be strengthened at all levels of plan-making, not only for housing and economic growth, but also for environmental protection at a landscape scale.
By R.D.R.A., ago