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Appendix 2 Land at 47 the Drove, Collyweston Development Brief Appendix 2 Land at 47 The Drove, Collyweston Development Brief Statement of Consultation and Consideration of Representations 1. Introduction 1.1 On 21st May 2003 East Northamptonshire Council approved Land at 47 The Drove, Collyweston Development Brief for the purpose of consultation with the local community and other interested organisations. 1.2 This statement sets out the steps that were taken to publicise the draft development brief and the arrangements that were made to give the local community and any other interested parties an opportunity to make comments and to make them aware of that opportunity. 1.3 The statement also sets out East Northamptonshire Council's consideration of the representations received and the revisions that were made to the brief as a result. 2. Consultation 2.2 Burghley House Preservation Trust prepared the development brief after initial discussions with officers from East Northamptonshire Council and a presentation to Collyweston Parish Council. An informal draft brief was circulated on the 23 October 2002 to Collyweston Parish Council and East Northamptonshire Council. Written comments from East Northamptonshire Council resulted in some amendments to the brief. The Parish Council held an open meeting on the 12 December 2002 for all residents of the village. This was attended by the Clerk to the Parish Council, five Parish Councillors and four members of the public and explanations were made by the author. There was an open discussion and no resolutions were passed. The main areas for discussion that were relevant to the brief included; • the need to ensure that there is sufficient car parking capacity; • doubts about whether narrowing roads would have any benefit; • doubts about the relevance of keeping the stone wall at the front of the site; and • a need to ensure suitable materials The Parish Council made its written comments by 15 January 2003 and some further amendments was made to the informal draft development brief. 2.3 The Council's Planning & Licensing Committee approved a draft of this development brief for consultation on 21st May 2003. A notice was placed in the Council's community newspaper 'Nene Valley News' on 8 July, Issue 129. Copies of the document were sent to a wide range of organisations and individuals. In addition a text only version of the draft development brief was made available via the District Council's website. The consultation began in May 2003, with a deadline for responses of 5 August 2003. 3. Objections and Representations 3.1 All objections and representations received can be inspected at the offices of East Northamptonshire District Council. A summary of the objections and representations received is set out in the following schedule. 4. Consideration of Objections and Representations 4.1 East Northamptonshire Council has considered each representation submitted and has decided what action to take on each. The following schedule sets out this consideration. SCHEDULE OF REPRESENTATIONS Respondent Comment Response Action Anglian Water • Stated that foul drainage from • Comment noted. No change • No change as result of this development can be required representation accommodated in the existing public foul sewer in the Drove. • There are no public surface • Revised brief will require • Add new paragraph "Anglian water sewers in the vicinity and sustainable urban drainage Water advises that there are no surface water will not in any measures for the disposal of public surface water sewers in circumstances be permitted to surface water. Detailed matters the vicinity and surface water discharge to the foul sewer. An will be determined at the will not in any circumstances alternative method of surface reserved matters stage. be permitted to discharge to the water disposal should therefore foul sewer. The Council Anglain Water be considered requires a Sustainable Urban cont'd; Drainage solution for the disposal of surface water. The Environment Agency will offer further advice and information." Collyweston Parish • Express concern about parking • Development should conform • No change as result of Council at the site entrance and on the to the Local Plan which representation Drove stipulates that any proposals will need to meet the requirements of the Council and the local highway authority in terms of access, parking and manoeuvring. • Considers the brief should • The extant planning permission • No change as result of exclude land described as phase relates to the entire site. The representation two. main aim of the brief is to ensure the two sites in different ownership are developed in a comprehensive manner. To sub divide the site will threaten this aim. • The Parish Council is • It is not appropriate to prescribe • No change as result of concerned that the use of the a rigid set of design rules as representation term 'should' as used exceptional circumstances may throughout the document is not necessitate a degree of a strong enough term. flexibility. • The footpath link should be • Designating public rights of • No change as result of specified as a public right of way is the responsibility of representation way. Northamptonshire County Council. This falls outside the jurisdiction of the brief. The Collyweston Parish Parish Council may contact the Council cont; County Council to make a case for designation based on its historical use. • Requests that structural • The brief addresses the site • No change as result of landscaping is provided around comprehensively and it is representation each phase of the site. inappropriate to divide the site through landscaping. Nevertheless, the brief specifies that mature trees along the boundary between the two ownerships should be retained • Consider that all the mature • Trees which have an amenity • No change as result of trees in phase two must be value are protected under representation retained. When phase one is at Policy EN3 of the Local Plan. detailed planning stage, a tree The brief also reinforces this survey will be required from protection by specifying that the developer to ensure that at majority of mature trees along least 70% of phase one trees are the boundary of the two phases retained. should be retained. • Request the wall along the • Retention of the wall is • No change as result of frontage of The Drove is encouraged in the brief. No representation reinstated and retained access is permitted through the thereafter. wall except for a single access point. • The relevant Government Act • Comment is too vague. Without • No change as result of must cover the Open Space knowing which Government representation Act it is difficult to comment. However, the requirement to provide the open space is set out in Local Plan policy and the associated supplementary Collyweston Parish planning guidance. Future Council cont'd; maintenance of the open space would be secured through a legal agreement with the developer and the Parish Council. • Opposed to two storey houses • Two storey houses with steeply • No change as result of with steep roofs. pitched gable roofs are a representation common feature in the village and are acceptable in terms of local character. • Opposed to the creation of 2 1/2 • The brief stipulates that in • No change as result of or 3 storey houses. general, houses should be of representation two storey, however buildings of 2 1/2 and 3 storey are acceptable in terms of local character. • Feels that hedges and stone • To ensure new development • Amend text to paragraph 13 of walls are to be used for internal integrates harmoniously with draft to read "Solid walls and boundaries existing village, hedges and fences should not immediately stone walls will be required for abut the footpath, however boundary treatment to public hedges and stone walls should routes and areas. be used for boundary treatment to public routes and areas where natural surveillance is not compromised" Delete text "Details should accord with the 'Secure By Design' approach." as it is referred to elsewhere. • Proposes that maintenance and • Agree that brief should clarify • Amend text to paragraph 6 of ownership of footpath should maintenance and ownership of brief to read "A new footpath be clarified in the brief the footpath. link should be created and Collyweston Parish maintained by the landowner to Council cont'd; join The Drove (Kings Cliffe Road) with the playing fields at The Drift". • Requests that brief should • The highway authority has • No change as result of specify that mini roundabout is recommended that a mini representation appropriate solution to serve roundabout is a possible the whole site. solution and the brief acknowledges this. • Opposed to road narrowing at • The highway authority • No change as result of the site entrance. indicated that road narrowing is representation acceptable providing criteria is satisfied. The brief does not specify road narrowing at the entrance but at suitable locations to reduce vehicle speeds. Any proposals will need to meet the requirements of the Council and the local highway authority in terms of access, parking and manoeuvring. • Concur that the main materials • It is unnecessary to specify • No change as result of for housing can be brick but colour in the development brief representation feel that buff or grey ranges as reference to building should be specified. Also materials is contained in the considers that red and brown adopted Rockingham Forest brick are inappropriate in this Countryside Design Guidance setting. which requires development to reflect the local character • Considers that modern large • It is unnecessary to specify • No change as result of roof tile ranges, such as Marley colour in the development brief representation Collyweston Parish or Redland, are not appropriate. as reference to building Council cont'd; materials is contained in the adopted Rockingham Forest Countryside Design Guidance which requires development to reflect the local character • Differing roof pitches can help • Agree that a variation in roof • No change as result of achieve an interesting pitches can achieve an representation roofscape.
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