Sorry to Come Back to You on This but AECOM Are Asking About Licence Numbers

From: Sent: 25 July 2018 13:57 To: 'Govresources' Subject: RE: Historic Environment Record Search for Hertford Heath

Hi – yes, the Parish Council numbers should be fine as they are consultants working on your behalf.

From: Govresource Sent: 25 July 2018 To: Subject: Re: Historic Environment Record Search for Hertford Heath

Sorry to come back to you on this but AECOM are asking about Licence numbers. Should I use the Parish Council’s licence number?

On 19 Jul 2018, at 15:22, Govresources wrote:

Hi , did I let you know that AECOM had downloaded the mapping information?

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From: " Subject: RE: Historic Environment Record Search for Hertford Heath Date: 28 June 2018 at 08:52:18 BST To: Govresources < >

Thank you for this. We have now downloaded the data so you can inform the council.

1 The team are now finalising the draft report and this will be ready for your review in the next few weeks.

I will let you know when I have an exact date.

Many thanks again for your help retrieving the data,

Kind regards

Supporting Communities Programme, Neighbourhood Planning

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From: Govresources [mailto: Sent: 26 June 2018 13:23 To: Subject: Historic Environment Record Search for Hertford Heath

Hopefully this is the last bit of the mapping data you need for the study. Apologies again for it taking a while.

I hadn’t realised until last week that I did have the right contact at the County Council through another Neighbourhood Plan volunteer.

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2 Date: 26 June 2018 at 12:56:15 BST To:

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Dear

Both the maps are ready for you to collect whenever you can make it to the Council offices at Wallfield’s. If you go into reception and ask for in Planning Policy I will bring the maps out. If you do this after Tuesday I won’t be in the office but I will make sure a colleague is available to bring them out to reception for you.

Kind regards,

Planning Policy Team Direct Dial: Wallfields Pegs Lane Hertford SG13 8EQ www.eastherts.gov.uk

-----Original Message----- From: Sent: 12 May 2017 12:03 To: Planning Policy Subject: Hertford Heath Parish Boundaries

I am pleased to say that after our conversation yesterday I have been able to find Hertford Heath's PSMA licence number . The next neighbourhood planning meeting is on 24th May and if possible it would be very helpful to have the largest Parish Council boundary map available at that time if the absolute largest takes longer. I would be happy to collect it from Pegs Lane

1 From: Sent: 18 February 2019 12:16 To: Subject: FW: Completions in Hertford Heath

See the below figures relating to Hertford Heath regarding both completions and potential commitments (just for reference). I think they all relate to spate applications but might be worth just checking there are no overlaps.

Best wishes,

From: Sent: 18 February 2019 11:47 To: Subject: RE: Completions in Hertford Heath

Hi see below,

Hertford Heath Village units completed in 2017/18 3/16/0305/var 1 unit 3/16/0990/var 2 units Total 3 units

Extant permissions 3/15/1288/ful 1 unit 3/16/1372/ful 1 unit 3/16/1572/ful 4 units 3/18/0520/ful 1 unit 3/18/1683/rem 1 unit Total 8 units

1 From: Sent: 0 10:32 To: Subject: od Plan for Hertford Heath

From: Sent: 07 April 2016 13:58 To: Subject: FW: Neighbourhood Plan for Hertford Heath

FYI

From: Clerk Hertford Heath Parish Council Sent: 07 April 2016 12:05 To: Subject: FW: Neighbourhood Plan for Hertford Heath

Dear All

As you may be aware, a group of Hertford Heath Parish Councillors are leading on the initial stages of the development of a Neighbourhood Plan for our village. We have asked the community to volunteer if they are interested in the development of the plan and have received a number of emails in response.

The working group has decided to hold an initial meeting with the volunteers from the community on 21st April at 7.30pm in the Mission Room to look at what a Neighbourhood Plan means for the village and to begin to think about how it can be progressed.

You are all warmly invited to attend this informal event and I would be very grateful if you could kindly let me know if you will be coming along.

Regards

1 From: Sent: 17 December 2019 09:53 To: 'Clerk' Cc: Subject: RE: [External] Hertford Heath Neighbourhood Plan

Dear

That should be fine – I will set aside some time at 11am on Wednesday.

Kind regards,

From: Clerk Sent: 16 December 2019 16:21 To:

Subject: Re: [External] Hertford Heath Neighbourhood Plan

Dear

I have spoken with and we would like to have a telephone conversation with you regarding this issue. Would you be available for a phone call at 11.00 .am. on Wednesday 18th December, if this time is not suitable to you, then please suggest another time on Wednesday.

Please note I only work Monday's and Friday's but will respond to emails in between.

NEW: Our website address is hertfordheath.org.uk. Also please note my new email address.

From: Sent: 16 December 2019 14:57 To: '

Subject: RE: [External] Hertford Heath Neighbourhood Plan

1 Dear

Thank you for getting in touch – and apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I will say that from the outset it is very hard for me to advise with complete certainty what the right course of action is, as often there will have been a lot of work undertaken already, and nuanced arguments behind the various decisions taken already. However, in order to try to provide some clarity and assist you in finding a way forward I have put together a few thoughts below.

In terms of the manner in which the planning consultant was procured, this isn’t something that ourselves, or indeed a neighbourhood planning examiner would be concerned with or would look at in any detail. But this does not preclude other parties taking an issue with the it so it depends how comfortable you feel as a Parish Council, I haven’t heard this raised as an issue by any other PC’s that have employed a planning consultant but of course I don’t know the details of how they commissioned a consultant. Likewise the consultants performance is something I believe only the client can truly judge and so dependent upon the arrangement you have with them, I would suggest it is in your power to retain or release the consultant as you see appropriate.

One area that does concern me somewhat, is that you have noted that there may have been some inconsistencies with how the site selection process has been conducted. This of course will be an area that could be rigorously scrutinised through the statutory consultations and the examination particularly given that different land owners are involved. Because of this, I would certainly recommend that the PC take stock of the situation and investigate the depth of any issues/inconsistencies. When you have a firm grasp (you may already) of exactly what has happened, it may be useful for us to have a phone call to start so that I can understand a bit more about what is going on. Following that, if we need to sit down and have a meeting we can do so.

I would emphasise that I believe that the consultants performance and initial procurement is a separate issue to that of the neighbourhood planning process and the work the Parish Council has already undertaken. I would therefore reassure you that it is unlikely that any issues will mean that we need to start with a blank-canvas.

My direct dial is below and I am happy to talk this through – I am largely free this week apart from a handful of meetings so if it is convenient for you this may be the best starting point.

Kind regards,

From: Sent: 11 December 2019 15:46 To:

Subject: [External] Hertford Heath Neighbourhood Plan

Dear Mr

2 We need some advice.

The Neighbourhood Planning Team have produced a draft plan and this was voted through the PC by a narrow margin of 4 to 3 with one abstention.

The plan recommends that Haileybury College should develop a piece of their greenbelt land.

On further and deeper examination it appears that there have been a number of inconsistencies with the process. These include unrecorded meetings and phone calls by members of the team with Haileybury’s management and consultants. The Neighbourhood Planning Consultant was employed by the PC, with no selection procedure and no contract, and with no other alternative services tendered for. This consultan'ts performance is questionable as on one occasion she wrote to a rival developer and gave them factually incorrect information which would have impacted their bid.

The proposal made by the Planning Team will deliver no community benefits whatsoever and this is one of the objectives for neighbourhood planning.

The Parish Council has met to discuss this and has agreed to go no further without some sort of second opinion.

We may have to, in the worst case, start the process all over again, fire the consultant, refer the consultant to the appropriate body and to externally audit the whole process.

We are in a very difficult position and need help.

Can you please assist?

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3 From: Sent: 19 16:28 To: Cc:

Subject: RE: [External] FW: Hertford Heath Neighbourhood Plan

Dear

I must apologise – when I came back from leave I must have misread that email and was slightly confused because I had provided informal comments on a previous draft of the Plan in early August.

I now see that the question only related to affordable housing and not the document as a whole. In response to this, any affordable housing that comes forward will be allocated through the Council’s district-wide housing needs register, so affordable housing will not be reserved for residents within the village. This is common practice everywhere in the District.

I clicked on the link you provided but it took my through to your consultation statement and not a draft Plan? We will of course make detailed comments during a regulation 14 consultation as a Council so please be assured that there is plenty of opportunity for us to comment.

Kind regards,

From: Sent: 03 October 2019 16:21 To:

Subject: [External] FW: Hertford Heath Neighbourhood Plan

Dear Mr

I do not seem to have received a response from you with regards to my query below. Please could you respond as soon as possible as the council are due to sign off the draft neighbourhood plan on Monday and we would need to have the answer to this question beforehand.

We would appreciate4 your feedback on the draft neighbourhood plan which can be found here www.hhnp.co.uk/cs/csdraft.pdf

Kind regards

Please note my normal working days are Monday and Friday, however, I will look at emails inbetween.

From: Sent: 23 August 2019 13:30 To: 1 Cc: Subject: Hertford Heath Neighbourhood Plan

Dear Mr

Recently myself and the chairman of Hertford Heath Parish Council, , had a meeting with and and we discussed the Hertford Heath Neighbourhood Plan. This is being put together by a Neighbourhood Plan steering group with the advice and assistance of Jacqueline Veator. Linda suggested that we contact you with regards to the plan to ensure that it covers all aspects that are needed. The draft plan is due to be presented at our next parish council meeting on the 2nd September for approval by the parish council.

We would appreciate your valuable feedback on the documents that have already been uploaded onto the neighbourhood plan website www.hhnp.co.uk

Also, please could you confirm that the 40% of the proposed new properties that will be given over to affordable housing will be allocated? Can you assure us that priority will be given to residents of the village?

I look forward to receiving your response to my enquiry.

Kind regards

Please note my normal working days are Monday and Friday, however, I will look at emails inbetween.

2 From: Sent: 14 February 2019 12:56 To: ' Subject: RE: Bengeo, Hertford Heath, Watton-at-Stone, Thundridge, Sele, Stanstead Abbotts, Hunsdon

Yep – I’ll be at the meeting today, I guessed that you hadn’t been involved with the first draft because I would best describe it as ‘needing a bit of work’! In that case I won’t linger too much on the detailed issues and will be more generic.

Thanks for the general update – I will get the Hertford Heath data over to you early next week.

Don’t panic, who I am bringing along today is a new planning assistant and has an interest in Neighbourhood Planning so I’m hoping to get her more involved in return for some assistance.

See you shortly,

From: Sent: 14 February 2019 12:26 To: Subject: Bengeo, Hertford Heath, Watton-at-Stone, Thundridge, Sele, Stanstead Abbotts, Hunsdon

Bengeo Just to remind you that the Bengeo meeting today is a formal Town Council Committee, as the Sele NP Working Party meeting was. I have not written the draft you have, it was done by a very able volunteer but I know there are some issues with it, including a large ‘development’ chunk missing (a volunteers issue which I don’t seem to be able to get around). One option is for me just to right something. I have already provided maps, ideas and a set of generic policies that they can amend.

Hertford Heath They are focusing in other Green Belt release and are negotiating with the landowner. Please can you give me an up to date figure on the number of homes built since April 2017.

Watton-at-Stone We had a great meeting with the landowner of the site south of the Stevenage Road and they are going to play ball on the small site and approx 60 homes. Very relieved about that.

Thundridge They are out to Reg 14 Consultation so you will shortly be getting an official notification. There are some bits of the NP I am not happy with so I am keen to get a full set of comments from you.

Sele The Town Council will want to move forward with this quickly after Regulation 14 so please can you submit your comments within the 6 week time frame.

1 Stanstead Abbotts They are about to do a local call for sites.

Who is the new person you are bring along today? Are you moving up or out? I am constantly worried that East Herts will lose you before I have some of these plans put to bed!

Hunsdon They put on a great show for their first consultation and had masses of interest.

2 From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: RE: Green belt review & Hertford Heath

Apologies for the delay. Although the status of Hertford Heath has changed, the green belt that surrounds Hertford Heath has been assessed in the study against generic green belt purposes and so these assessments will still stand. I would focus primarily on the assessments of green belt parcels 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 (pages 45-52).

The PBA report into the GB was not to determine the most appropriate strategy or even present a strategy to the Council, the study was purely focussed on making sure that green belt issues where taken into consideration and could be considered alongside all other relevant deliberations.

Any other questions please don’t hesitate to ask – kind regards,

From: Sent: 19 September 2018 13:02 To:

Subject: Green belt review & Hertford Heath

As you know our Neighbourhood Plan is progressing and we are currently seeking input from landowners who might be thinking about development opportunities, I thought that it might help me if I re-read some of the evidence base that has been collected for the development of the Local Plan. In doing so I note that the East Herts Green Belt Review Final (18.09.2015) produced by pba was before it was decided that Hertford Heath should be a category one village therefore it was only assessed as a category 2 (limited infill). In particular paragraph 4.1.2

Points out that Hertford Heath wasn’t considered appropriate for development therefore its surrounding green belt was assumed not relevant. Now that we are categorised as a group one village the situation has changed, do you have any feel for what “weight” this may have in the feasibility of releasing green belt land for development? I am

1 concerned that if the Green Belt that we are inset from has not been appropriately assessed as part of the review then what is its actual status and value?

I appreciate that you both have a lot on at the moment, you guidance would be very welcome on this.

Many thanks and best wishes

2 From: Sent: :01 To: Cc: Subject: RE: Hertford Heath - Green Belt boundary/village boundary change

Hi ,

I think I went through this in January’s meeting with Watton and it still remains the same. The NPPF (since July 2018 and now February), through paragraph 136 introduced a mechanism for neighbourhood plans to amend green belt boundaries by saying:

“Where a need for changes to Green Belt boundaries has been established through strategic policies, detailed amendments to those boundaries may be made through non-strategic policies, including neighbourhood plans.”

So put simply a neighbourhood plan now changes the GB boundaries and does not require a review of the District Plan or a site allocations DPD to do so. Once an area is taken out of the Green Belt through the adoption of a Neighbourhood Plan it is no longer GB and will not revert back to GB whether the site is built-out or not.

I hope that helps,

From: Sent: 27 September 2019 09:16 To:

Subject: [External] Hertford Heath - Green Belt boundary/village boundary change

Hi ,

We have had a query from the Parish Council about the status of the Green Belt land that we allocate for housing in our Neighbourhood Plan (see below).

What happens if the Haileybury development does not go ahead?

This raises the big issue of whether we are allocating a housing site that would allow it to receive permission in the Green Belt by virtue of our adopted Neighbourhood Plan being a part of the statutory Development Plan and us redrawing our village boundary, or are we redrawing the Green Belt boundary or will that final bit of the puzzle be ratified at a District Plan review or site allocations document?

I know you have said let's talk about it.

That time has come!

We need to know what East Herts think.

Stanstead Abbotts and Watton-at-Stone will be following very quickly on the heels of Hertford Heath so this need to be resolved now.

1 Look forward to hearing back from you.

From Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 6:26 PM To:

Subject: Green belt adoption

It has been brought to my attention that in the minutes of the parish council meeting in June, the HHNP group asked the council for permission to adopt a piece of green belt land for the Haileybury development. This was accepted by the council, however, asked the question as to whether if the development didn’t go ahead, would the land revert back to green belt.

The minutes stated that you would look into it and let us know. I don’t think I have had a response from you. Please could you find out and let me know prior to the draft plan being presented to council.

I have been warned that this could present a contentious issue with residents, so to be forearmed would be better for all concerned.

Kind regards

Please note my normal working days are Monday and Friday, however, I will look at emails inbetween.

2 From: Sent: 21 June 2018 11:29 To: Subject: RE: Hertford Heath Heritage and Character Assessment

Our GIS team have put together all the requested data for AECOM, if they use the link below to download the data and can then let me know as soon as it has been downloaded that would be great. In response to your question – yes, I think the second point would be a query for County.

Kind regards,

From: Sent: 09 June 2018

Subject: Fwd: Hertford Heath Heritage and Character Assessment

Hertford Heath have Technical Assistance from Locality/AECOM for a Character Assessment of the village and its surroundings. They are struggling with mapping. Can you help with the first and third of these bullet points?

I am not exactly sure what they are asking for in the second bullet. Do they mean contacting the County Council?

Any help you can offer on this would be gratefully received. Thank you.

• Ordnance Survey Mastermap of the neighbourhood plan area, to be provided in shapefile or GDB format. We would be happy to sign a third party license agreement to use this • A Historic Environment Record search of the neighbourhood plan area, to be provided in shapefile format. • OS MasterMap, Vector Map Local (Raster),1:25k and OS Terrain5 for the DEM if available.

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1 From: Subject: RE: Hertford Heath Heritage and Character Assessment Date: 25 May 2018 at 15:54:20 BST To:

My apologies I have just seen that I totally missed this email.

We do still require this information. Can you assist us?

Kind regards

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From: Sent: 06 May 2018 20:11 To

Subject: Re: Hertford Heath Heritage and Character Assessment

H further to my earlier email, are you still looking for the mapping and HER information below?

From: Sent: 03 April 2018 11:57

2 To: Clerk Hertford Heath Parish Council < Subject: FW: Hertford Heath Heritage and Character Assessment

Dear

I am writing further to your recent application for technical support with respect to the Hertford Heath Neighbourhood Plan. As you may be aware, a grant has now been approved for AECOM to prepare a Heritage and Character Assessment of the area, which we will deliver on behalf of Locality. Our work will comprise an objective, fact-based assessment which culminates in a set of character management principles to guide future change. It is intended to positively influence future development in the area.

We are keen to engage with the group as soon as possible to tap into your local knowledge of the area and to understand what additional information you might be able to provide to support the assessment. Our budget is limited and so copies of previous studies, historical maps and photographs (to which you have copyright or are copyright free) and local records would be particularly helpful, together with a list of issues and opportunities you have identified which may influence future change. Our work will culminate in a concise A4 report, illustrated by maps and photographs. I have attached a guide which sets out the type of information we require the group to provide. In addition, I would be grateful if you could request the following from the local authority, to be provided by 27th April 2018:

Before we start work in earnest I would like to arrange a telephone call with you to discuss this further. Please, can you let me know your availability in the next two weeks?

Examples of previous reports for similar areas are available here.

I look forward to hearing from you

Best regards

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