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Report on Portland Neighbourhood Plan 2017 - 2031 Report on Portland Neighbourhood Plan 2017 - 2031 An Examination undertaken for Dorset Council with the support of the Portland Town Council on the June 2019 submission version of the Plan. Independent Examiner: Mary O’Rourke BA(Hons) DipTP MRTPI Date of Report: 21 January 2020 Intelligent Plans and Examinations (IPE) Ltd, 29 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2DL Registered in England and Wales. Company Reg. No. 10100118. VAT Reg. No. 237 7641 84 1 Contents Page Main Findings - Executive Summary 4 1. Introduction and Background 4 Portland Neighbourhood Plan 2017–2031 4 The Independent Examiner 5 The Scope of the Examination 5 The Basic Conditions 6 2. Approach to the Examination 7 Planning Policy Context 7 Submitted Documents 8 Site Visit 9 Written Representations with or without Public 9 Hearing Modifications 9 3. Procedural Compliance and Human Rights 9 Qualifying Body and Neighbourhood Plan Area 9 Plan Period 9 Neighbourhood Plan Preparation and Consultation 10 Development and Use of Land 11 Excluded Development 11 Human Rights 11 4. Compliance with the Basic Conditions 12 EU Obligations 12 Main Issues 13 Introduction 13 Issue 1: The Natural Environment and Heritage 15 - Protection of European Sites 15 - Flood Risk 16 - Renewable Energy 16 - Portland Quarries Nature Park 17 - Heritage Assets 18 - Design and Character 19 Issue 2: Development Boundaries, Business, 20 Housing and Tourism - Development Boundaries 20 - Business and Employment 22 - Housing 24 - Tourism 29 Issue 3: Transport, Shopping and Community 31 Recreation - Transport 31 - Shopping 32 - Community Recreation 33 Intelligent Plans and Examinations (IPE) Ltd, 29 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2DL Registered in England and Wales. Company Reg. No. 10100118. VAT Reg. No. 237 7641 84 2 5. Conclusions 35 Summary 35 The Referendum and its Area 35 Overview 36 Appendix: Modifications 37 Intelligent Plans and Examinations (IPE) Ltd, 29 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2DL Registered in England and Wales. Company Reg. No. 10100118. VAT Reg. No. 237 7641 84 3 Main Findings - Executive Summary From my examination of the Portland Neighbourhood Plan (the Plan/PNP) and its supporting documentation including the representations made, I have concluded that subject to the policy modifications set out in this report, the Plan meets the Basic Conditions. I have also concluded that: - The Plan has been prepared and submitted for examination by a qualifying body – the Portland Town Council; - The Plan has been prepared for an area properly designated – the area of Portland shown on Map 1; - The Plan specifies the period to which it is to take effect – 2017 to 2031; and - The policies relate to the development and use of land for a designated neighbourhood area. I recommend that the Plan, once modified, proceeds to Referendum on the basis that it has met all the relevant legal requirements. I have considered whether the referendum area should extend beyond the designated area to which the Plan relates and have concluded that it should not. 1. Introduction and Background Portland Neighbourhood Plan 2017-2031 1.1 The island parish of Portland is on the south coast and is located directly south of Weymouth. The island is in a unique position at the eastern end of Chesil Beach, at the centre of the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site (also known as the Jurassic Coast). From Ferrybridge, where the A354 leaves the mainland and crosses Hamm Beach to the island, to Portland Bill at the southern end is a distance of some 8 kilometres (km) and to the north west the Plan area stretches another 2.5 km along Chesil Beach. The island itself is a tilted table of limestone, rising sharply to over 150 metres (m) before gently sloping south to Portland Bill, and a large area of the island is dominated by quarries, some of which continue to be worked. In addition to its World Heritage status, much of the island’s natural environment is designated as special and subject to international and national nature conservation designations. 1.2 In 2011, some 12,884 people in 5,175 households lived on the island. The Plan describes the local economy as still adjusting to the withdrawal of the Royal Navy in the 1990s, with many of the island’s residents dependent on the Weymouth area for employment, shops, services and Intelligent Plans and Examinations (IPE) Ltd, 29 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2DL Registered in England and Wales. Company Reg. No. 10100118. VAT Reg. No. 237 7641 84 4 education. Whilst Portland Harbour is one of the largest deep-water man- made harbours in the world, the Port is described as currently operating below its potential capacity. 1.3 Work on the Neighbourhood Plan began in 2012, following community led work on the then draft Weymouth and Portland Local Plan. Application for designation as a neighbourhood area was made by Portland Town Council to the then Weymouth and Portland Borough Council in October 2012 and following consultation, formal approval was given in November 20131. A community-based Working Group was established by the Town Council to work on the Neighbourhood Plan with residents and stakeholders regularly consulted. The Consultation Statement details the stages in the Plan’s preparation and the results of consultations with residents, landowners, interest groups, businesses and statutory bodies. Weymouth and Portland have been the subject of recent local government re-organisation with the creation of Dorset Council as a unitary authority, replacing the former Weymouth and Portland Borough Council. The Independent Examiner 1.4 As the Plan has now reached the examination stage, I have been appointed as the examiner of the PNP by Dorset Council (DC), with the agreement of Portland Town Council (PTC). 1.5 I am a chartered town planner and former government Planning Inspector, with some 40 years of experience in the public and private sector, latterly determining major planning appeals and examining development plans and national infrastructure projects. I have recent previous experience of examining neighbourhood plans. I am an independent examiner, and do not have an interest in any of the land that may be affected by the draft Plan. The Scope of the Examination 1.6 As the independent examiner I am required to produce this report and recommend either: (a) that the neighbourhood plan is submitted to a referendum without changes; or (b) that modifications are made and that the modified neighbourhood plan is submitted to a referendum; or 1 DC’s response of 5 December 2019 to question 5 in my letter of 22 November 2019. View at: https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/planning-buildings-land/planning- policy/west-dorset-and-weymouth-portland/neighbourhood-planning/neighbourhood- plans/portland-neighbourhood-plan.aspx Intelligent Plans and Examinations (IPE) Ltd, 29 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2DL Registered in England and Wales. Company Reg. No. 10100118. VAT Reg. No. 237 7641 84 5 (c) that the neighbourhood plan does not proceed to a referendum on the basis that it does not meet the necessary legal requirements. 1.7 The scope of the examination is set out in Paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 4B to the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) (‘the 1990 Act’). The examiner must consider: Whether the Plan meets the Basic Conditions; Whether the Plan complies with provisions under s.38A and s.38B of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended) (‘the 2004 Act’). These are: - it has been prepared and submitted for examination by a qualifying body, for an area that has been properly designated by the local planning authority; - it sets out policies in relation to the development and use of land; - it specifies the period during which it has effect; - it does not include provisions and policies for ‘excluded development’; - it is the only neighbourhood plan for the area and does not relate to land outside the designated neighbourhood area; - whether the referendum boundary should be extended beyond the designated area, should the Plan proceed to referendum; and Such matters as prescribed in the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (‘the 2012 Regulations’). 1.8 I have considered only matters that fall within Paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 4B to the 1990 Act, with one exception. That is the requirement that the Plan is compatible with the Human Rights Convention. The Basic Conditions 1.9 The ‘Basic Conditions’ are set out in Paragraph 8(2) of Schedule 4B to the 1990 Act. In order to meet the Basic Conditions, the neighbourhood plan must: - Have regard to national policies and advice contained in guidance issued by the Secretary of State; - Contribute to the achievement of sustainable development; Intelligent Plans and Examinations (IPE) Ltd, 29 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2DL Registered in England and Wales. Company Reg. No. 10100118. VAT Reg. No. 237 7641 84 6 - Be in general conformity with the strategic policies of the development plan for the area; - Be compatible with and not breach European Union (EU) obligations; and - Meet prescribed conditions and comply with prescribed matters. 1.10 Regulation 32 of the 2012 Regulations prescribes a further Basic Condition for a neighbourhood plan. This requires that the making of the Plan does not breach the requirements of Chapter 8 Part 6 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (the 2017 Regulations)2. 2. Approach to the Examination Planning Policy Context 2.1 The Development Plan for this part of DC, not including documents relating to excluded minerals and waste development, is the West Dorset, Weymouth and Portland Local Plan 2015, which guides development in the area to 2031 (the Local Plan). There is an accompanying Background Document on the Local Plan’s Policies Map, prepared in 2015, which states that it ‘provides background information on local designations such as Conservation Areas, Land of Local Landscape Importance and Important Local Gaps.
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