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Search the Public Notice PortalThe leaders of West Berkshire Council and neighbouring Basingstoke and Deane Council have drawn battle lines over plans for 350 houses over the border, but on the doorstep of Newbury.
West Berkshire will bear the brunt of costs to its services, because the development’s nearest town is Newbury.
Basingstoke and Deane has added housing in the adjoining area on the other side of the road of West Berkshire’s boundary, meaning the services, schools and roads between there and Newbury will be heavily used.
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West Berkshire Council leader Jeff Brooks met his counterpart on Monday, January 12 after mass demos in villages on the district’s border, which will be affected by the plans in Wash Water.
He also met with 150 villagers who protested about the plans in Mortimer.
“I was at a meeting with the Basingstoke and Deade leadership and asked them not to do it,” said Mr Brooks.
“I said I would prefer you didn’t include those sites in the Local Plan. But they are not going to turn round and say 'because you ask we won’t do it',” he added.
He confirmed that a motion will go to his council in March asking the neighbouring authority not to put in its Local Plan, and says he is writing to Westminster to see a ‘complete mitigation for pressure put on our services’.
“They can't give Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), but if children are coming to our schools, then we have to be able to recoup additional demands from them,” he said.
Councils have a duty to cooperate with each other, so West Berkshire is effectively caught between a rock and a hard place, meaning taking the matter to Westminster for a change in the system is its only real option.
Mr Brooks says he is asking his officers to find out what other councils in similar situations are doing.
