Objecting to Development

Objecting to Development

Agenda • The Planning Application • What makes an objection count? • How to tailor your letter • Information to help you

What you don’t want!Agenda • The Planning Application • What makes an objection count? • How to tailor your letter • Information to help you

Planning Policy Problem is, the JCS is incomplete, neighbourhood plans and parish plans have only just started so we can only hand our hats on the NPPF

National Planning Policy FrameworkMinisterial Forward • “The purpose of planning is to help achievesustainable development.” • Sustainable means ensuring that better lives for ourselves don’t mean worse lives for future generations. • Development means growth.

The NPPF says • where the development plan is absent, silent or relevant policies are out‑of‑date, granting permission unless: • any adverse impacts of doing so would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits, when assessed against the policies in this Framework taken as a whole • specific policies in this Framework indicate development should be restricted.

The NPPF has 3 themes • an economic role • contributing to building a strong, responsive and competitive economy by ensuring that sufficient land of the right type is available in the right places and at the right time to support growth and innovation and by identifying and coordinating development requirements, including the provision of infrastructure; • a social role • supporting strong, vibrant and healthy communities, by providing the supply of housing required to meet the needs of present and future generations; and by creating a high quality built environment, with accessible local services that reflect the community’s needs and support its health, social and cultural well-being • an environmental role • contributing to protecting and enhancing our natural, built and historic environment; and, as part of this, helping to improve biodiversity, use natural resources prudently, minimise waste and pollution, and mitigate and adapt to climate change including moving to a low carbon economy.

The NPPF states12 principles of good planning • Be genuinely plan-led • Not simply be about scrutiny • Proactively drive and support sustainable economic development • Always secure high quality design and a good standard of amenity • Take account of the different roles and character of different areas, • Support the transition to a low carbon future in a changing climate, • Contribute to conserving and enhancing the natural environment • Encourage the effective use of brownfield land • Promote mixed use developments • Conserve heritage assets in a manner appropriate to their significance • Manage growth to make the fullest possible use of public transport, walking and cycling, • Improve health, social and cultural wellbeing and community facilities for local needs.

Your Opinion • In the next slides are some extracts from the NPPF. If you believe the Charles Church proposal complies with the requirements of good design, you don’t need to object. • You need to object if; • If you think the proposal is at odds to the requirements for good design • If you think Charles Church’s view of our village and its needs are wrong or misleading • If you want something different for Alderton • If there is an issue that is not addressed by their proposal • The next slides show extracts from the NPPF

4. Requiring good designpara 58 • will function well and add to the overall quality of the area, not just for the short term but over the lifetime of the development • establish a strong sense of place, using streetscapes and buildings to create attractive and comfortable places to live, work and visit • respond to local character and history, and reflect the identity of local surroundings and materials, while not preventing or discouraging appropriate innovation • are visually attractive as a result of good architecture and appropriate landscaping

5. Roles and character of different areas • Great weight should be given to conserving landscape and scenic beauty in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which have the highest status of protection in relation to landscape and scenic beauty.Para 115 • JCS Vision, and Strategic Objectives • Conserve and improve the natural environment • areas of high landscape value are [to be] avoided • Consideration of the impact of development on the setting of a protected landscape has been accepted as a material consideration. • Cotswolds Conservation Board “it is suggested that [such] allocation would result in this JCS objective failing to be met”

6.Meeting the challenge of climate changepara 93. • Planning plays a key role in helping shape places to secure radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, minimising vulnerability and providing resilience to the impacts of climate change, and supporting the delivery of renewable and low carbon energy and associated infrastructure. • plan for new development in locations and ways which reduce greenhouse gas emissions

7. Conserving and enhancing the natural environmentpara 109. • Protecting and enhancing valued landscapes, geological conservation interests and soils • Recognising the wider benefits of ecosystem services • Minimising impacts on biodiversity and providing net gains in biodiversity • Preventing unacceptable levels of soil, air, water or noise pollution

11. Use of public transport, walking and cyclingpara 35. • Therefore, developments should be located and designed where practical to • Accommodate the efficient delivery of goods and supplies; • Give priority to pedestrian and cycle movements, • Have access to high quality public transport facilities; • Create safe layouts which minimise conflicts between traffic and cyclists or pedestrians

Joint Core Strategy • Number of houses for Rural Area • 2,880 • Number of years • 20 • Houses per year • 144 • Houses for Alderton per year • 2 • Houses proposed by Charles Church • 60 in first year!!!!! Proportionality

Tailoring your letter • Refer to the NPPF or JCS (if you can!) • Major on • Design • Sustainability • Personalise it to your • Experience • Knowledge • Circumstances • Example: • Transport • Your method of transport • How far do you go • How often • Your problems

Tailoring your letter • Write to • Mr. J. Hinett, • Planning Officer, • Tewkesbury Borough Council, Council Offices, Gloucester Road, • Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, • GL20 5TT • Official deadline 15th March 2013 • But opinions accepted up to hearing date in April

Information to Help Ypu • Charles Church Application • Reference 13/00114/FUL Land at Beckford Rd • If you Google the reference and follow the links you’ll be able to see all the documents submitted by the developer. • Have fun spotting the 40 or so errors!!!!

Objecting to Development