'The Funtley Village Society's response to the Fareham Local Plan Part 3: Welborne Plan February 2014, The Sustainability Appraisal for the Welborne Plan January 2014 and the Habitats Regulations Assessment for the Welborne Plan January 2014 For the attention of the Planning Inspectorate 5th April 2014. Contents . Fareham Borough Council Representation Form . Funtley Village Society’s response to the Fareham Local Plan Part 3: The Welborne Plan Appendix I . Funtley Village Society’s critique of the Fareham Local Plan Part 3: The Welborne Plan, the Sustainability Appraisal for the Welborne Plan January 2014 and the Habitats Regulations Assessment for the Welborne Plan January 2014 Appendix II . Fareham Residents Survey 2013 & Results of Survey on Ward by Ward basis Appendix III . Minutes of Fareham Borough Council Executive, 16th May 2011 Appendix IV . Minutes of Titchfield CAT Meeting, 9th June 2011 Appendix V . Freedom of Information Request re Fareham Housing Needs 14th August 2013 Appendix VI . HCC Local Traffic Note & Standing Conference Workshop Note 28th March 2014 Appendix VII . Press articles and emails of local support Appendix VIII . Email confirmation from FBC re submission of letters to the Planning Inspectorate Funtley Village Society Submission to the Planning Inspectorate 7th April 2014 Ref: (official use only) Local Plan Part 3: The Welborne Plan Publication Stage Representation Form Please return to Fareham Borough Council by 5pm on Friday 11 April 2014 This form has two parts – Part A – Personal Details. You only need to fill this out once, if making multiple representations Part B – Your representation(s). Please fill in a separate sheet for each representation you wish to make. Part A 1. Personal Details* 2. Agent’s Details (if applicable) *If an agent is appointed, please complete only the title, name and organisation boxes and complete the full contact details of the agent in 2. Title Mr First Name Edward Last Name Morell Job Title (where relevant) Chairman Organisation Funtley Village Society (where relevant) Address Line 1 Richmond Cottage Address Line 2 8 Funtley Lane Address Line 3 Funtley, Fareham Postcode PO17 5EQ Telephone No. 07714 104543 Email Address [email protected] Ref: (official use only) (if available) Part B – Please use a separate sheet for each representation Name of your organisation: Funtley Village Society 3. To which part of the Local Plan Part 3: The Welborne Plan does this representation relate Paragraph Policy Policies Other map map or diagram 4. Do you consider the Local Plan Part 3: The Welborne Plan is: Please tick as appropriate 4.(1) Legally compliant Yes No 4.(2) Sound Yes No 4.(3) Complies with the Yes No duty to co-operate 5. Please give details of why you consider the Local Plan Part 3: The Welborne Plan is not legally compliant or is unsound or fails to comply with the duty to co-operate. Please be as precise as possible. If you wish to support the legal compliance or soundness of the Local Plan Part 3: The Welborne Plan or its compliance with the duty to co-operate, please also use this box to set out your comments. Please see attached detailed submission by the Funtley Village Society in response to the Local Plan Part 3: Welborne Plan February 2014 including Appendices I to VII as supporting evidence. We have also made detailed comment on the Local Plan Part 3: Welborne Plan February 2014, the Sustainability Appraisal for the Welborne Plan January 2014 and the Habitats Regulations Assessment for the Welborne Plan January 2014 in Appendix I of this submission. (Continue on a separate sheet/ expand box if necessary) 6. Please set out what modification(s) you consider necessary to make the Welborne Plan legally compliant or sound, having regard to the test you have identified at question 5 above where this relates to soundness. (NB Please note that any non-compliance with the duty to co-operate is incapable of modification at examination). You will need to say why this modification will make the Welborne Plan legally compliant or sound. It will be helpful if you are able to put forward your suggested revised wording of any policy or text. Please be as precise as possible. If we had evidenced and funded details on the overall Welborne Plan e.g. the precise source of the funding for the infrastructure, the actual details for the preferred option for Junction 10 of the M27, the actual wastewater option to be used for Welborne and how that is to be funded, the flood mitigation measures to be used and how they will be funded and paid for etc etc, we could then put forward modifications that could make the Welborne Plan legally compliant and sound. One modification we would consider necessary is maintaining settlement separation with a buffer zone of at least 500 meters. Details in our attached response. This would then render this aspect of the Welborne Plan sound whereas the current proposal of a 50m buffer zone does not render it sound, as it contradicts the clear principle of maintaining settlement separation. (Continue on a separate sheet/ expand box if necessary) Please note your representation should cover succinctly all the information, evidence and supporting information necessary to support/justify the representation and the suggested modification, as there will not normally be a subsequent opportunity to make further representations based on the original representation at publication stage. After this stage, further submissions will be only at the request of the Inspector, based on the matters and issues he/she identifies for examination. 7. If your representation is seeking a modification, do you consider it necessary to participate at the oral part of the examination? No, I do not wish to Yes, I wish to participate participate at the at the oral examination. oral examination 8. If you wish to participate at the oral part of the examination, please outline why you consider this to be necessary. We also wish to participate at the oral examination. We believe that this is necessary because along with Knowle Village, Welborne will have the most direct impact on the residents of Funtley and many of the key issues we have already mentioned and highlighted are of the utmost concern to our local community. We were represented at the last oral examination in June 2011 and believe that we should be, as a matter of course, represented again at the next oral examination. (Continue on a separate sheet/ expand box if necessary) Please note the Inspector will determine the most appropriate procedure to adopt to hear those who have indicated that they wish to participate at the oral part of the examination. 9. Signature: Date: 7th April 2014 FAO The Planning Inspectorate c/o Welborne Planning Team Department of Planning and Environment Fareham Borough Council Civic Offices Civic Way Fareham PO16 7AZ April 7th 2014 Dear Sir or Madam, Ref: Funtley Village Society’s representation to the Fareham Local Plan Part 3: The Welborne Plan February 2014 Please see below our collective response to the Welborne Plan February 2014. Overview and Background The Funtley Village Society (FVS) is a community organisation representing the local community. Funtley Village is a small (300 dwellings, a church, public house and social club), vibrant and thriving community with a clear and strong local identity. The overwhelming majority of Funtley residents were and have been consistently against the initial proposals of what was the South East Plan proposal of up to 10,000 homes in the area of Fareham Borough, north of the M27 back in 2005 and 2006 and subsequently in the revised New Community North of Fareham proposals, now known as the draft Welborne Plan. This was evidenced by 194 signatures of Funtley Residents on a petition against the proposed new community, submitted to Fareham Borough Council (FBC) in January 2011. In addition a separate (wider) online petition with 1,372 signatories was submitted in March 2011 (See Appendix III, p2, paragraph 5). Individual objections were submitted directly to Fareham Borough Council (FBC) online or in writing by other local residents within Funtley and the wider North Fareham area. We have made three previous official submissions to the Core Strategy, the draft Welborne Plan and the Sustainability Appraisal of the Welborne Plan on 30th January 2011, 10th June 2013 and 26th November 2013 respectively. We recognise that there is a need for more housing to meet local needs and we are not against development per se. However our reason for objecting to the Welborne Plan is that it is the wrong development in terms of its sheer size, in the wrong place in terms of the topography of the land, downstream flooding issues, existing gridlocked local transport network and more, as supported by our following arguments. We believe the local plan more than meets the local housing needs of Fareham (approximately 3,000 homes over 20 years) without the need to build Welborne. We as a community will have the greatest adverse impact by the Welborne Development for example in terms of increased noise, light and dust pollution, construction traffic for decades, loss of green space and open countryside and increased traffic on an already congested local transport network. To mitigate some of the worst effects of this proposed development, we urge FBC and the Developers to consider putting a community woodland in the buffer zone, north of Funtley. FBC’s Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) 2011 states “we will inform, engage, consult, and report back and respond to local people, interested groups and organisations”, the SCI also states “The Council will continue to promote social inclusion by actively seeking to involve hard to reach groups” http://www.fareham.gov.uk/pdf/planning/ldf/sci2011.pdf.