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Doncaster Local Plan Summary of Representations to Main Modifications Consultation 2021 and Council’s Response www.doncaster.gov.uk 1 Doncaster Local Plan Summary of Representations to Main Modifications Consultation 2021 and Council’s Response (April 2021) Consultation took place for six weeks between Monday 8 February until the end of Sunday 21 March 2021. The scope of the consultation was consistent with that undertaken at Regulation 19 stage. Consultation responses were received from the following individuals, site promoters and organisations: Individuals: Lund, Oliver; Mason, Gillian; Owen, Christopher; Parkinson, Don, Parkinson, Kim and Wilton (Thorne) Ltd; Thomson, Julia; Tomlinson, Stephen. Site promoters: Abernant Homes; Avant Homes, Bellway Homes; Blue Anchor Leisure; Firsure; Harworth Group; KCS Developments Limited; Metacre; Metroland; Miller Homes; Peel Land and Property Group Management; Persimmon Homes South Yorkshire; Polypipe Building Products; RWE Renewables UK Developments Ltd; Sandbeck Estate; Strata Homes; The Home Builders Federation; The Strategic Land Group; Troy Verdion; JVH Town Planning. Organisations: Anglian Water; Canal and River Trust; CrossCountry Trains; Environment Agency; Highways England; Historic England; Homes England; Natural England; NHS Property Services; The Coal Authority; United Kingdom Onshore Oil and Gas; Wakefield Council; Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. The Local Plan Inspector’s instructions in respect of this consultation (DONC INP22 MM consult) state the following: ‘the Council should forward the representations to the Programme Officer along with a report listing all of the representations; a summary of the main issues raised; and the Council’s brief response to those main issues.’ The summary and brief responses are provided in Tables A to E below. All the representations can be viewed in full on the Council’s Main Modifications page on the website at: www.doncaster.gov.uk/localplan. Tables F1 to F3 shows representations objecting to Site 165/186 – Crabgate Lane, Skellow which do not directly relate to the Main Modifications Consultation. 1 TABLE A - Summary of main issues raised about the proposed main modifications Consultee Customer Main Mod Summary of Main issues raised Brief Council response ref no number General comments Wakefield Council 0293 n/a No comments on the specific modifications and Response noted and welcomed support the continued progress towards adoption. Homes England 04465 n/a General support for Local Plan Response noted and welcomed CrossCountry 0121 Encouraged to see such a positive and detailed Response noted and welcomed Trains plan. Broadly support the ECML connection to the airport but this does bring challenges such as track layout and connections. Reference to increase in freight transport is supported. Demand trends and passenger travel habits will need to be monitored United Kingdom 05014 n/a Support the modifications and consider that Policy Response noted and welcomed Onshore Oil and 64 is sound and that the whole plan is sound. Gas NHS Property 05351 n/a Welcomes the Council’s guidance on the delivery Response noted and welcomed Services of health facilities to support development Firsure Ltd 05215 n/a The proposed Modifications will not deliver the Response noted. The representation provides level or nature of housing in the appropriate more detailed comments with respect to this as locations required to support the growth of part of the wider response to the Main Doncaster as a key driver for growth. It is essential Modifications which are summarised and there is an alignment between the objectives of the responded to below. Plan, the Strategy and approach to allocations. Avant Homes 05208 n/a The proposed Modifications will not deliver the Response noted. The representation provides level or nature of housing in the appropriate more detailed comments with respect to this as locations required to support the growth of part of the wider response to the Main Doncaster as a key driver for growth. It is essential Modifications which are summarised and there is an alignment between the objectives of the responded to below. Plan, the Strategy and approach to allocations. Strata Homes 02073 n/a The proposed Modifications will not deliver the Response noted. The representation provides level or nature of housing in the appropriate more detailed comments with respect to this as locations required to support the growth of part of the wider response to the Main Doncaster as a key driver for growth. It is essential Modifications which are summarised and there is an alignment between the objectives of the responded to below. Plan, the Strategy and approach to allocations. Harworth Group 05647 n/a The proposed Modifications will not deliver the Response noted. The representation provides level or nature of employment in the appropriate more detailed comments with respect to this as locations required to support the growth of part of the wider response to the Main Doncaster as a key driver for growth. It is essential 2 Consultee Customer Main Mod Summary of Main issues raised Brief Council response ref no number there is an alignment between the objectives of the Modifications which are summarised and Plan, the Strategy and approach to allocations. responded to below. Chapter 1: Introduction No comments Chapter 2: About Doncaster No comments Chapter 3: Our Vision for the Future No comments Chapter 4: Strategic Approach The Strategic Land 04210 MM03 Percentage figures are dependent on each other This matter was discussed in the hearing Group e.g. if delivery in the Main Urban Area was much sessions. Table 4, read in conjunction with Policy lower than expected it would have the effect of 2, sets out the exact number of new homes for making delivery in the other tiers much higher in the allocations in each of the settlements in the 3 percentage terms. That could result in confusion upper tiers of the settlement hierarchy. The and a lack of clarity for both decision Council maintains the modification is necessary to makers and the general public for how to deal with make the plan sound, and that the proposed planning applications. wording provides sufficient clarity. As the housing requirement is now to be a fixed figure, the distribution of those homes should also be expressed in terms of a minimum number of dwellings in each tier of the hierarchy. The text should be amended to read: At least 7,182 new home will to the ‘Main Urban Area,’ at least 6,343 to the ‘Main Towns’ and at least 2,382 to the ‘Service Towns and Villages. Miller Homes 05288 MM03 A retrospective lowering of 5% of new houses in This matter was discussed in the hearing the Main Urban Area (from 50% to 45%) sessions. The Main Urban Area remains the main undermines the spatial approach of promoting focus for growth. Whilst the percentages have sustainable development. been amended, it is important to note that no additional development has been proposed in the The MUA equates to roughly 50% of the Service Towns and Villages (and therefore there population in the borough. Taking growth away is no resultant increase in travel etc.), all sites from Doncaster and distributing it to lower order were already proposed allocations prior to the settlements increases the need to travel and is a modification which would deliver the amount of departure from the evidence base which supported housing specified by 2035. The percentages the draft plan. reflect that. It was also noted at the hearings that 3 Consultee Customer Main Mod Summary of Main issues raised Brief Council response ref no number the Grange Farm site is clearly located within the By lowering the growth in the MUA and increasing Armthorpe Neighbourhood Plan area (and not an growth elsewhere the MUA cannot be described extension to the Main Urban Area). The site was as the main focus of growth. not supported by the Neighbourhood Plan which allocated alternative urban extension sites. The hearings stated that a large driver in the reduction in percentages is the fact that insufficient sites have been allocated to meet the original 50% figure. However there are additional sites available which could increase the number of sites in the MUA e.g. Grange Farm. The percentage of growth in the MUA should be retained at 50%. KCS 05319 MM03 Support amendment to remove the identified There has been no reduction in the plan period, Developments range as well as the 5% uplift in designating 15% which remains from 2015 – 2035, however it is Limited of the borough’s housing distribution across the acknowledged that the first 3 years have been service villages. accounted for. Calculations no longer factor in oversupply in the first 3 years so the annual Concerns that a reduction in the plan period requirement has increased from the draft Plan’s leaves limited flexibility for housing delivery as residual 882dpa approach to 920 dpa minimum MM14 says ‘in the remainder of the plan period’ and in actual terms, whilst the requirement for which reduces the housing period by three years 2018 – 2035 is 15,640, the actual number of to cover 2018 – 2035. This equates to a reduction dwellings identified as per Table 9 is 19,492. of 2,760 units over the plan period (previously 18,400 reduced to 15,640). Object to the plan period being shortened by 3 years. A thorough Green Belt assessment has been carried out and the matter was discussed The Local Plan failed to complete a thorough throughout the examination. Allocations have Green Belt Assessment and therefore some been identified to more than meet the settlements (such as Skellow) have sites adjacent settlement’s plan period requirement and there is to the settlement boundary which are in Green Belt likely to be additional windfall supply on non- and are unable to provide the required windfall Green Belt sites over the plan period.