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Article: Developers launch attack on planning committee
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- Citizen Gloucestershire, The
- Article date:
- June 13, 2009
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By Dan Charlesdan.charles@glosmedia.co.uk
DEVELOPERS have launched a scathing attack on Gloucester City
Council for rejecting their proposals for sheltered housing.
Churchill Retirement Living Ltd had resubmitted a planning
application at Denmark Road in Gloucester for 48 sheltered
apartments for the elderly but with a reduced contribution towards
off site affordable housing of pounds174,665.
This was rejected by the council's planning committee at a
meeting on Tuesday.
The initial contribution, offered in 2007, was pounds600,000 and
councillors felt this reduction was unrealistic and voted
unanimously against the proposal.
Spencer McCarthy, chairman and group managing director of
Churchill ...