Consultation Response Form

Mendip Local Plan Part II: Sites & Policies – Pre-Submission Consultation

Please use this form to respond or make representations on Local Plan Part II and

associated consultation documents. For information or advice, please contact the Planning Policy Team by email at [email protected] or phone (0300) 303 8588.

Contact Details If you have appointed somebody to act as your agent, please give their contact details. All correspondence will be sent to the agent Name: Agent Name: Andrew Taylor Helen Pinder-Taylor

Organisation (if applicable): Company Name: Address:

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Date completed Date completed 12 February 2018

Do you wish to be notified of future stages of Local Plan Part II (tick box) We will contact you by e-mail only unless you confirm here (tick box)

Data protection – please read - The information collected as part this consultation will be processed by the Council in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The purposes for collecting this data are: to assist in plan making; and to contact you, if necessary, regarding the planning consultation process. Please note that representations must be attributable to named individuals or organisations at a postal address. Representations and contact names will be published on the Mendip website but no other personal information Copies of this form are available from Council Offices and Access Points or can be downloaded from www.mendip.gov.uk/localplanpart2 . If you require this document in another format such as Braille, large print or another language then please contact us.

Please use a separate form for each site or main issue you wish to make. You can also attach one contact form to a group of representations. Please make sure any separate documents include your name –so they can be clearly identified.

Mendip Local Plan Part II: Sites & Policies - Issues and Options Consultation

Please return your response by 5pm Monday 12th February 2018. By post to: Planning Policy, Mendip District Council, Cannards Grave Road, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 5BT By email to: [email protected] By hand to: The Council offices in Shepton Mallet (address above).

For office use

Details of Objection/ Comment./Representation

Name /Organisation Andrew Taylor Helen Pinder-Taylor

Nunney, Local Green Space Codes: Please indicate the document to which your LGSNUN001 representation relates (e.g. policy, paragraph LGSNUN002 number, HELAA site reference ) Land Registry No: WS45909

Do you consider the Local Plan is Legally Compliant? 1 Yes No Do you consider the Local Plan is Sound? We can't answer this because we have no knowledge or means by which to make this Yes No assessment. It would require an expert legal review.

Do you consider it necessary to participate at Yes, if you are minded to reject our examination hearings? (eg present oral opposition, we would like to attend a hearing evidence) with you.

Please provide details below of why you consider the Local Plan is not legally compliant or is unsound. Please be as precise as possible. If you wish to support the legal compliance and soundness of the plan, please also use this box to set out your comments.

1 See our Online Guidance note on what these terms mean 2

Mendip Local Plan Part II: Sites & Policies - Issues and Options Consultation We are writing as registered land owners affected by your proposed LGS designations LGSNUN001 and LGSNUN002.

We object to both these nominations. We set out our reasons below.

LGSNUN001 & LGSNUN002

Your rules say that no designation should be made if the land is "already protected by other designations" and the rules go on to say that "sites which fall within the curtilage of a listed building or Conservation Area do not necessarily need additional protection under this policy".

Nunney Court and its grounds are Listed Grade II and are also in a Conservation Area. Both regimes already provide all the protection the public needs in relation to development.

Your rules say "The Local Green Space designation will not be appropriate for most green areas or open space" and only where the "area is demonstrably special to a local community and holds a particular local significance". The areas covered by your two proposed designations are not demonstrably special nor hold particular significance. If you assert that they do, you will need to provide the evidence.

LGSNUN001

Your rules state that "private gardens" may not warrant protection and then only in "exceptional circumstances".

All of this is our garden. It cannot be right that people's gardens become LGSs. If that were the case, there are other gardens (large and small) in Nunney that you must, for the sake of fairness, also designate.

Furthermore, half of LGSNUN001 is our walled garden [MARKED 'A' on the plan set out below] which is enclosed, private, and cannot be seen by any member of the public (eg it cannot be viewed from Donkey Lane or Church Street).

The other half [MARKED 'B'] can be only viewed from Donkey Lane and Church Street because we recently removed an impenetrable, thick and tall bank of leylandii and laurel from along the whole boundary. For many years and perhaps decades before that, no one could see in. In any case, it is still part of our garden and should not be designated (see above).

LGSNUN002

We own part of LGSNUN002 [MARKED 'C'] This area is entirely covered by thick, wild woodland and undergrowth. It adjoins Nunney Brook and is low lying, and therefore is boggy and floods when it rains. Even a little rain raises Nunney Brook enough to flood the area. It contains a historic but silted up mill pond (that is also covered with trees and undergrowth) which partially explains why it floods so easily. If you go further back in time, part of the land was used as a reed bed for processing sewage, which is consistent with it being low-lying at virtually the same level as the stream.

It cannot be said to be green space. Your rules state "In the previous Local Plan (2002) trees and walls were included. However, trees and woodlands are protected by other means … ". It is clear that woodland is not supposed to be covered by the LGS regime and trees will only be covered incidentally if they happen to be part of the space in question ("trees or woodland could form part of a site that has value as a green space trees are only included").

OTHER AREAS IN NUNNEY

You have not included an open space that should be designated an LGS. It is an enclosed field adjacent to Nunney Castle. [Marked 'D']. It slopes upwards and overlooks the north side of the castle. It is an important part of the aspect of the castle and if it were to be developed it would significantly affect the setting of the castle. It clearly meets your criteria for a green space which is important to the thousands of members of the public who visit the castle each year. In any event, English Heritage who manage the castle should be consulted by you. It also has historical significance. It is almost certainly the site of the cannon which the

Mendip Local Plan Part II: Sites & Policies - Issues and Options Consultation parliamentarian forces used to breach the north wall of the castle to end their siege during the English Civil War. See the three photos below which we try to demonstrate the setting.

MARKED PLAN

Mendip Local Plan Part II: Sites & Policies - Issues and Options Consultation PHOTOS OF PLOT MARKED 'D'

In the final photo, the field is at the back of the castle, to the right hand side.

Mendip Local Plan Part II: Sites & Policies – Pre-Submission Consultation

Consultation Response Form

Please use this form to respond or make representations on Local Plan Part II and

associated consultation documents. For information or advice, please contact the Planning Policy Team by email at [email protected] or phone (0300) 303 8588.

Organisation (if applicable): Company Name: Address:

Postcode:

Email:

Tel:

Date completed Date completed 12 February 2018

Do you wish to be notified of future stages of Local Plan Part II (tick box) We will contact you by e-mail only unless you confirm here (tick box)

Mendip Local Plan Part II: Sites & Policies - Issues and Options Consultation

For office use

Details of Objection/ Comment./Representation

Name /Organisation Andrew Taylor Helen Pinder-Taylor

Please indicate the document to which your representation relates (e.g. policy, paragraph Nunney, Local Green Space Plan number, HELAA site reference )

Do you consider it necessary to participate at examination hearings? (eg present oral No evidence)

1 See our Online Guidance note on what these terms mean 2

Mendip Local Plan Part II: Sites & Policies - Issues and Options Consultation We are writing as residents of Nunney to alert you to part of the village which you have not nominated as a LGS but which seems to us as having clear benefit to members of the public, both villagers and the 1,000 of people that visit Nunney Castle each year.

The area is an enclosed field adjacent to Nunney Castle. [Marked 'D' on the marked plan below]. It slopes upwards and overlooks the north side of the castle. It is an important part of the aspect of the castle and if it were to be developed it would significantly affect the setting of the castle. It clearly meets your criteria for a green space which is important to the thousands of members of the public who visit the castle each year. In any event, English Heritage who manage the castle should be consulted by you. It also has historical significance. It is almost certainly the site of the cannon which the parliamentarian forces used to breach the north wall of the castle to end their siege during the English Civil War. See the three photos below which we try to demonstrate the setting.

MARKED PLAN

Mendip Local Plan Part II: Sites & Policies - Issues and Options Consultation PHOTOS OF PLOT MARKED 'D'

In the final photo, the field is at the back of the castle, to the right hand side.