2010 – EyePeterborough

Public meeting is well attended

Posted on 26th November 201013th January 2019 by EyePadmin

A well-attended meeting for such a cold winter evening. MP Stewart Jackson and City Council officers were in attendance. Although the council’s plans for 300 homes for Eye Green have been reduced the City Council still want to build 85 houses, 35 on Eye Green and 50 off Thorney Road. We wait in anticipation to see what the outcome of the meeting is.

The Evening Telegraph has reported that Eye Councillor David Sanders was “embarrassed” by the actions of his council.

Update: The Evening Telegraph has a full report on the meeting here.

Related: Marco Cereste, leader of Peterborough City Council becomes chairman of LarkPoint, Larkfleet homes are one of the companies building homes in Eye. Report from the Evening Telegraph here.

Editors comment: Although the reduction in housing is welcomed my thoughts are that 35 homes on the Eye Green site are just ridiculous. 20 executive houses on the Eye Green site plus 50 homes off Thorney Road could be accommodated, at a push, although we would need assurances that there will be no further growth on that scale.

Peterboroughs growth strategy for the next 14 years

Posted on 12th November 201013th January 2019 by EyePadmin

Reported in the Evening Telegraph this week Peterborough City councils growth strategy to create 24,600 homes has been approved by the government. This includes 85 homes on top of the 190 homes already approved for Eye. Although the leader of the council Councillor Marco Cereste said he was delighted with the news, Eye and Thorney Councillor David Sanders attacked the designation of Eye as a “Key Service area”. Continue reading “Peterboroughs growth strategy for the next 14 years” →

AMVC school bus

Posted on 4th November 201013th January 2019 by EyePadmin

Earlier in the year, it was reported that the bus travel for Year 11 pupils to Arthur Mellows Village college would be removed to save money and pupils would have to catch the bus into Queensgate and back out to Glinton.

The story starts in 2006 and the error made in 2006 making Deacons Academy the main school for Eye. The academy was subsequently oversubscribed which has meant that a number of pupils still have to go to Arthur Mellows anyway. At the time Cllr John Bartlett, who represented Eye and Thorney on Peterborough City Council, added: “The whole thing is a nightmare and mistakes have been made.” Parents at the time were not too impressed neither, for more on that story click here.

The outcome of this is one set of buses goes to Deacons and another to Arthur Mellows when there just used to be buses to Arthur Mellows. Of course, this is costing a lot of money, the long term plan would have been to phase out the Arthur Mellows buses but as pupils are still going there this isn’t going to happen anytime soon so the council has found a way to save money by removing bus access for Year 11 pupils.

Whether this is fair or not I’ll leave you to decide, the situation is being ‘monitored’ Cllr Holditch has said.

Eye and Thorney campaigners anger over plans for consultations

Posted on 7th September 201025th January 2018 by EyePadmin

CAMPAIGNERS fear objections raised against proposed new homes and travellers’ sites by hundreds of residents Eye and Thorney residents could be ignored. Their concerns were sparked when it was revealed that the Rural North Neighbourhood Council will be asked on Thursday to approve or reject proposals, including 300 new homes to be built in Eye, that are included in Peterborough City Council’s Site Allocations Document…

Eye Housing Plans

Posted on 21st April 201026th January 2018 by EyePadmin

Big turnout last night as plans for the further development of Eye were discussed. Over 275 people gathered at Eye Community Centre to find out more about Peterborough City Councils plans to build an extra 305 home and 10 travellers pitches to the east of the village. Over 500 letters of objection were handed over to the planning officers. Richard Kay, the Council’s Policy and Strategy Manager did admit that it was quite a large amount for Eye. The consultation period ends on Thursday 22nd April.