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VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT PLANS Building Homes in Hillam and Monk Fryston – The next fifteen years Selby District Council (SDC) is finalising its policies for all forms of land development in the next fifteen years. It believes the district needs 7,000 houses. About 1,600 will be spread over 18 ‘designated service villages.’ As one of the largest such villages, Hillam and Monk Fryston could get 100 new homes. In a worst case scenario, Hillam could see as many as 150 new houses in the period up to 2026, if all possible sites are adopted and developed. Under the plans, which are subject to wide ranging consultation, 98 homes could be built on land bounded by Main Street, the Brickpond and Mill Close. Another 48 would fit into a block of land starting at Stocking Lane, including Austfield House and reaching as far as the eastern boundary of Hillam Nurseries. This block includes Meadowside across the road with a plot on the corner of Austfield Lane. New houses are not being built in any number right now but this is a fifteen year plan and by the time you read about it in Hillam News the local consultation period will already have ended. SDC will draft its plan and publish preferred options in July. Not all the houses will necessarily be built. That will depend on applications from developers, who may indeed identify additional sites.
behind the school and adjoining the Old Vicarage. Some of this was subject to a planning proposal for 40 houses, circulated three years ago by Dean McKeown of the Old Vicarage. 106 houses could now be built. Further options in Monk Fryston include the possibility to develop Deer Park (110 houses) extending as far as the railway, or building in the old quarry (13 homes). Also in Monk Fryston, 33 homes are an option on land to the east of Priory Park south of Fryston Common Lane. Interestingly in Hillam there are no suggestions to fill in between Bedford’s Fold and Austfield Lane or behind a number of houses with large gardens east of Lumby Hill. The proposals recognize that some of the sites could be used as industrial, offices (Monk Fryston Filling Station for example) and for leisure, recreation and infrastructure. These are all in Monk Fryston. The plan does not suggest anywhere in Hillam or Monk Fryston as uniquely suitable for affordable housing. It is unlikely that all the new sites will be developed in the next fifteen years. If they were, we would need another new school. In 1995 Hillam Parish Council endorsed planning consent for the demolition of farm buildings at Rose Tree Farm and this led to the building of Bedford’s Fold. In the same year, Victor Homes gained approval for the erection of twenty houses at Hillside Farm. Outline planning approval at Boundary Farm, Lumby Hill was renewed and Arncliffe Homes submitted a planning application for 23 houses on Hillam Hall Lane.
Now that the Monk Fryston bypass project is dead and buried, land reserved since before the war, can be released for housing. The Foundation Field could accommodate 21 houses. Land south of Monk Fryston Cemetery 51 and Fryston Filling Station, That was fifteen years ago. Who can say what development the with a field behind could take 30 houses. next fifteen years will bring to Hillam and Monk Fryston? Possibly more controversial are plans for former bypass land
Hillam News Property Correspondent
Nigel Adams asks PM about Targets for providing Traveller Sites The Selby Development plan for housing described above includes 60 sites for travellers. There are no traveller sites proposed in Hillam or Monk Fryston but there is one at Hambleton. This part of the local plan is proving the most controversial. Villagers across the District are uniting in a massive show of people power in objecting to the proposals. The problem has been highlighted by our MP Nigel Adams who asked the Prime Minister on 16 March what was being done about the targets set by the previous Government. This is what was said Nigel Adams : Hundreds of residents across the Selby district are up in arms at the prospect of having a Traveller site imposed on their villages. Can the Prime Minister tell me what can be done, and when, to remove the top-down Traveller site targets currently imposed on local authorities? The Prime Minister: I can tell my hon. Friend that we are abolishing the top-down Traveller pitch targets that were imposed on
local authorities, and instead local councils will determine the right level of site provision in consultation with their local communities. It is also important that we recognise that one law should apply to everyone in terms of planning policy in this country, Travellers included.
Hillam farmland not sold . The ‘For Sale’ signs are down on Betteras Hill Road but the twenty acres of grassland, offered for sale by agents Carter Jonas, failed to find a buyer. A local farmer has now rented the land. The three fields, with a guide price of £8,000.00 per acre had been offered subject to a thirty year, 30% development clawback.