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Draft Isles of Scilly Local Plan 2015-2030 Draft Isles of Scilly Local Plan Including Minerals and Waste 2015-2030 PRE-SUBMISSION DRAFT (REGULATION 19) PUBLIC CONSULTATION 22 FEBRUARY TO 5 APRIL 2019 Summary of Responses Publication Details Isles of Scilly Local Plan 2015–2030 | Pre-Submission Draft Local Plan Document Summary of Responses Published | 26th July 2019 Full Council Approval | 25th July 2019 If you require any of the documents in an alternative language, in larger text, Braille, easy read or in an audio format, please contact the Council at [email protected] or telephone 0300 1234 105 Council of the Isles of Scilly Isles of Scilly Local Plan 2015–2030 The Planning Department Town Hall St Mary’s Isles of Scilly TR21 0LW [email protected] 1 | Summary of Consultation Responses REG 19 PRE- SUBMISSION DRAFT LOCAL PLAN 2015- 2030 Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Headline Indicators ....................................................................................................................... 5 Next Steps ....................................................................................................................................... 2 Summary of Responses ............................................................................................................... 3 Proposed Amendments ............................................................................................................. 86 2 | Summary of Consultation Responses REG 19 PRE- SUBMISSION DRAFT LOCAL PLAN 2015- 2030 Introduction 1. This report summarises the consultation responses following the Public Consultation, under Regulation 19 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) Regulations 2012, on the Draft Isles of Scilly Local Plan. All of the documents, subject to public consultation can be found here: http://www.scilly.gov.uk/local-plan-consultation-2019. 2. The public consultation ran from the 22nd February 2019 for six weeks up to 5th April 2019 and followed on from earlier Regulation 18 consultations that took place between 8th June 2015 and 27th July 2015 and then again in 2018 from 16th March 2018 through to 11th May 2018. This consultation was the required Regulation 19 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulation 2012 where 19. - Before submitting a local plan to the Secretary of State under section 20 of the Act, the local planning authority must— a) make a copy of each of the proposed submission documents and a statement of the representations procedure available in accordance with regulation 35, and b) ensure that a statement of the representations procedure and a statement of the fact that the proposed submission documents are available for inspection and of the places and times at which they can be inspected, is sent to each of the general consultation bodies and each of the specific consultation bodies invited to make representations under regulation 18(1). 3. Officers communicated the public consultation with an all-island mail out through the Royal Mail Door-to Door service. This was to ensure that all of the resident population were aware of the consultation and planned drop-in sessions. All statutory consultees, businesses, organisations and individuals on the Local Plan Consultation Database were contacted to inform them of the proposed local plan consultation. 3 | Summary of Consultation Responses REG 19 PRE- SUBMISSION DRAFT LOCAL PLAN 2015- 2030 Figure 1 A5 leaflet (front and rear) delivered by Royal Mail w/c 25th Feb 2019 4. The Pre-Submission Draft Local Plan 2015-2030 and accompanying Sustainability Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment, including an Appropriate Assessment under the Habitat Regulations, of the draft plan, invited representations from the public and statutory consultees, over a 6 week period. 5. The Pre-Submission Draft Local Plan set out a Spatial Portrait to understand how the islands are at the start of the plan period, it set out the key challenges and issues to address as well as Spatial Strategy with Aims and Objectives to achieve the strategy over the period. The plan is split into five further sections: Section 1 Promoting a Sustainable Scilly Section 2 Our Outstanding Environment Section 3 Building a Strong Living Community Section 4 Building a Strong Working Community Section 5 Implementation and Monitoring 6. The draft plan includes the required submission policies maps which show both existing designations as well as existing areas to be defined and 7 sites allocated specifically for the delivery of affordable homes. 7. The consultation included a week of drop-in sessions across each of the inhabited islands. This included: • Tresco and Bryher – Wednesday 13th March 2019 • St Mary’s, Hugh Town – Thursday 14th March 2019 4 | Summary of Consultation Responses REG 19 PRE- SUBMISSION DRAFT LOCAL PLAN 2015- 2030 • St Mary’s, Old Town – Friday 15th March 2019 • St Agnes and St Martins – Monday 18th March 2019 8. The drop-in sessions were attended by a handful of local residents and these were notably down on previous consultation events: Drop In-Session Visitors 2015-2019 160 140 134 118 120 95 100 80 80 60 40 25 25 24 14 20 7 10 4 5 2 2 2 2 0 3 0 St Agnes St Mary's Bryher Tresco St Martins Total 2015 2018 2019 St St St Percentage Year Agnes Mary's Bryher Tresco Martins Total Change 2015 25 80 2 2 25 134 2018 4 95 7 2 10 118 -11% 2019 5 14 2 0 3 24 -79% Headline Indicators 9. A total of 24 people (1% of the total population) came to speak to us during the week of drop-in sessions which were held on each of the inhabited islands. 24 written consultation responses were received including formal consultation responses from a number of organisations and statutory consultees: • Historic England • Isles of Scilly Wildlife • Natural England Trust • Sport England • Cornwall Council • Environment Agency • Duchy of Cornwall • RSPB • Islands Partnership • Tresco Estate 10. The majority of consultation responses were either on the provided form or where set out as to enable officers to understand whether there were legal 5 | Summary of Consultation Responses REG 19 PRE- SUBMISSION DRAFT LOCAL PLAN 2015- 2030 compliance or soundness issues. The consultation webpage: http://www.scilly.gov.uk/local-plan-consultation-2019 set out the purpose of this stage of consultation and explained that it was an opportunity to comment on the policy content of a draft Local Plan, within a specific remit. The remit for public consultation relates to the ‘Tests of Soundness’ and also includes legal compliance, as set out in National Planning Policy Framework. Written Responses Received 30 25 24 20 15 10 10 7 7 5 0 Consultant Individual Statutory Consultee Total Received 11. The responses received included 10 written responses from members of the community of which 4 were from St Agnes and 6 were from St Mary’s. 1 | Summary of Consultation Responses REG 19 PRE- SUBMISSION DRAFT LOCAL PLAN 2015- 2030 Figure 2 Photographs of the 2019 Local Plan Drop-In Sessions Next Steps 12. Officers have reviewed all of the consultation responses and where appropriate have proposed to make minor modifications and amendments to the plan. There are four key pieces of work that the department will pull together. These include (1) an update to the Housing Topic Paper which will clarify the housing position with respect to the justification for the policy approach. This will include further justification to establish why it is necessary to restrict the size of new homes, replacement dwellings and extensions to existing homes, why it is necessary to specifically allow for policy consideration of alternative methods of cross-subsidisation to deliver affordable homes and why the use of principal residence conditions is necessary. The updated Housing Topic Paper will also include the standardised method of calculation housing needs. This is known as Local Housing Need and is specifically a requirement of the revised NPPF 2019. 13. Additionally Officers recognise that it is necessary to further elaborate on the issue of minerals. So as a Minerals Planning Authority, with no active quarries on the islands, it is necessary to explain the policy approach set out in Policy OE6. Officers will put together (2) a Minerals Assessment Topic Paper to explain the rationale of not proposing any minerals safeguarding areas or positively preparing for quarrying in light of the development proposed in the plan. 14. A further historic assessment is required in relation to the housing allocation site at Old Town, site H3. Given the proximity of this site to a Scheduled Monument the site is to be subject to a geophysical survey assessment to inform whether the site can be allocated as proposed or whether it should be reduced in size or discounted altogether. 15. Finally Officers will look to agree the Duty to Cooperate with Cornwall Council specifically in reference to the transport links, minerals and waste. 2 | Summary of Consultation Responses REG 19 PRE- SUBMISSION DRAFT LOCAL PLAN 2015- 2030 Summary of Responses 16. Of the 24 written responses received a total of 3 points, including 2 policies were identified as ‘sound’ and 28 ‘unsound’ points were raised. These unsound issues were for a variety of reasons including judgements that the policies or approach were no positively prepared, not effective or not in accordance with the NPPF. Policy Count Reason Unjustified Ineffective Inconsistent Not Positively with NPPF Prepared
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