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East Lothian Council Main Issues Report Comments from East Lammermuir Community Council East Lammermuir Community Council Welc East Lothian Council Main Issues Report Comments from East Lammermuir Community Council East Lammermuir Community Council welcomes the chance to comment on the Main Issues Report, and members discussed the report at our meeting on 27th January 2015. This followed a number of previous discussions about specific issues in the report - both amongst us as Community Council members, and with other local residents. The Community Council wishes to make the following contribution to the consultation East Lammermuir is an entirely rural area with four main villages. Our comments primarily concern sensitivity to the environment, history and people of the area in any proposed developments. In relation to housing development, there are proposals for blocks of new housing to be added to Stenton, Innerwick and Spott. Our experience of such developments has not often been positive, with the residents of these add-on small estates rarely succeeding in integrating well into the community life of the village. There may be a variety of reasons for this, but in terms of development and planning we would seek to ensure the following: 1) a thought-through, joined-up policy for new housing which makes affordable housing available to people who have grown up in or have relatives in the relevant village. We can see little evidence that the affordable housing that has been provided ever goes to local people - it is allocated on the basis of a council wide points system which cannot respond to the nuances of local connection. Is it beyond the wit of all of us to devise an effective system to meet the council's statutory responsibilities and the desires of local people? 2) in terms of prioritising integration into local communities, we ask for a different approach to approving new housing - starting with earmarking development sites and on through planning and building. We think a 2% per annum approach would work well, perhaps combined with a fair minimum number to encourage developers. We note for example that 2 new houses are under construction at Hoprig, near Oldhamstocks. We believe that this is both more sensitive to local communities, and more likely to see future integration of new residents, than are developments such as the 16 new houses proposed for Stenton, or the 18 at Innerwick East. The 6 for Spott seem a more reasonable scale. 3) where new housing is proposed, we ask that the related transport, education and health facilities are considered much more pro-actively than is presently the case. These matters directly affect people's quality of life. Residents of Innerwick last year received letters advising them that the local education infrastructure could not guarantee to offer siblings from the same family education in the same high school. We understand there may be concerns about transition for children from Stenton Primary to Dunbar High this year. We want to ask the council to plan according to population projections to meet these core needs - children's education, social and health care, and accessible transport between the small villages. We note that the MIR is virtually silent on Health Centres and hospitals, despite the new duty on the Council and NHS Board from April 2015 to produce a Strategic Plan for all health and care in East Lothian through an Integration Joint Board. Is it really still acceptable to omit these matters from the MIR? There are two further, related points. Firstly, we feel that more emphasis should be given to supporting infrastructure for employers and businesses in rural settings. This may be as simple as high speed broadband for people working at home, through to an emphasis on providing for flexible office and workshop space in community facilities in the villages and surrounding countryside. Only by shifting more employment nearer to the villages can we reduce our reliance on transport and therefore reduce our energy consumption and increase sustainability of these relatively fragile communities. Finally Community Councillors and local residents are not yet convinced that Fracking is a proven, safe technology and we believe that the Main Issues Report should propose to prevent any fracking in East Lothian until such time as this position changes. East Lammermuir Community Council 30th January 2015 .
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