Date 23/01/2007
A local organisation with a national reputation for securing well-designed, sustainable, affordable homes has placed its expertise at the disposal of the council considering a development at Orford.
Suffolk Preservation Society has written to Suffolk Coastal District Council in response to consultation on a planning application for 11 dwellings for local needs, proposed on a green field site on Ipswich Road, Orford. As well as detailed comments on the proposed development, the Society has offered to work with the local people, the Council and the Council’s partner, Flagship Housing, to achieve the high quality proposal the unique community of Orford deserves.
The Society is behind an exemplar scheme at Elmswell in Mid Suffolk, which has established a new national benchmark for affordable housing. One of the Society’s principle objectives is to support Suffolk communities by ensuring the provision of high quality, sustainable affordable homes. It combines planning expertise and local knowledge to propose long-term solutions to immediate needs.
Richard Ward, Director of the Society said ‘Orford, in the Society’s view, deserves nothing less than the best in design and sustainability terms. The Society offers to work positively with the local community, Flagship Housing and Council to achieve a better proposal, if it is allowed to do so’.
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Contacts
Richard Ward, Director, Suffolk Preservation Society 01787 247179
Sally Easton, Media Officer 01449 741551 / 0778 626 2863
Notes to editors
Attached – copy of letter to Mr P Ridley, Head of Planning Services, Suffolk Coastal District Council, detailing concerns with the application as currently proposed and offering to work positively to help resolve the issues.
The Elmswell affordable development scheme is the result of a partnership between Suffolk Preservation Society, Elmswell Parish Council, The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Orwell Housing Association, Mid Suffolk District Council and the East of England Development Agency. The designers are Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects
Founded in 1929, the Suffolk Preservation Society is a charity that works with local communities to protect and enhance the county’s countryside, towns and villages. It supports planning for and by local people by increasing knowledge about planning issues and by leading debate. The Society has a growing membership of 2,000, drawn from all parts of the county and beyond and from people of all walks of life. It is the county branch of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, which advocates positive solutions for the long-term future of the countryside.
