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Local Concerns Over Chaucer Fields Development Proposal at UCU Meeting

The proposal for development on Chaucer Fields has raised significant local concerns, specifically regarding the loss of a rich historical and natural landscape designated as 'Open Space' in the Local Plan. While not opposing additional student accommodation or a conference center on a different site, residents worry about the impacts of development on this particular location. Key issues include the potential loss of irreplaceable views, increased noise and disturbance for nearby residents, and the likelihood that new student housing will not decrease the number of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) in the area.

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Local Concerns Over Chaucer Fields Development Proposal at UCU Meeting

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  1. The ‘Chaucer Fields’ Proposal UCU Meeting May 2012

  2. What is local people’s concern? • NOT an objection to more student accommodation on campus • NOT necessarily an objection to the building of a conference centre on an appropriate site • BUT a deep concern about development on this particular site

  3. What would be lost

  4. What would be lost

  5. What would be lost

  6. What would be lost

  7. What would replace it

  8. Reasons against development on the southern slopes • A rich historical and natural landscape – a ‘mosaic environment’ • Green space which is a valued amenity • Designated as ‘Open Space’ in the Local Plan, in an Area of High Landscape Value • Irreplaceable views across the fields to the Cathedral and World Heritage Site • The University’s reputation locally

  9. The fields as heritage – the 1706 map

  10. Alternative sites? • YES • For example • The land between the Business Innovation Centre and the new Keynes accommodation • The ‘central woodlands’

  11. Alternative sites?

  12. A second local concern • An inevitable increase in noise and disturbance for local residents • Close proximity of seven accommodation blocks to local housing • Increase in disturbance from night-time/early morning transit between town and campus

  13. Late-night disturbance

  14. Would the development decrease the number of HMOs locally? • NO • All the evidence indicates that student halls of residence act as a hub which attracts HMOs to the area. • Any decrease in the number of HMOs would be only in more outlying areas of Canterbury where concentration is not a problem anyway.

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