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Heritage Appraisal and Impact Assessment PS082 This form has two parts: Ref: Part A – contact details Part B – your representation (for official use) only) Please fill in a separate sheet for each representation you wish to make. Part A 1. Personal Details* 2. Agent’s Details (if applicable) * If an agent is appointed, please complete only the Title, Name and Organisation boxes below but complete the full contact details of the agent in column 2. (for Title c/o agent Mr First name Geoff Last name Armstrong Job title (where Director relevant) Organisation Manor Oak Homes Armstrong Rigg Planning (where relevant) Address line 1 The Exchange Line 2 Colworth Science Park Line 3 Sharnbrook City/Town Bedford County Bedfordshire Postcode MK44 1LZ Telephone number 01234 867135 Email (if provided [email protected] we will always contact you this way) PS082 Part B: Please use a separate sheet for each representation Please note all comments will be made publically available. If you do not have sufficient space in the box please continue on a separate sheet or expand the box. 3. To which part of the Local Plan Paragraph Policy number Policies Maps does this representation relate? number Spatial Strategy SP1 4. Do you consider the Local Plan is: (please tick in the box below as appropriate and then provide details in the space below) 4. (1) Legally compliant? Yes YES No 4. (2) Compliant with the Duty to Yes YES No co-operate? 4. (3) Sound? Yes No NO 4 (1) Please give details of why you consider the Local Plan is not legally compliant, be as precise as possible. 4 (2) Please give details of why you consider the Local Plan does not comply with the duty to co-operate, be as precise as possible. 4 (3) Please give details of why you consider the Local Plan is not sound, referring to the tests of soundness as appropriate, be as precise as possible. Not Positively Prepared: The LPP2 does not comprise a suite of policies that as a minimum seek to meet the areas objectively assessed needs. In addition the Council are negating their duty to contribute towards the needs of neighbouring authorities. This is as a result of the negative inclusion of restrictive policies within the plan and a lack of suitable deliverable allocations that would ensure the provision of suitable levels of housing over the plan period; and It is clear that agreement will not be reached with SNC, as a neighbouring authority, in respect of the current approach described above. Not Effective: For Policy SP1 to be effective in assisting meeting the needs of the NRDA either one or both of the measures discussed in this enclosure will need to be employed in the LPP2. Currently the spatial strategy of the LPP2 should not even be considered as effective in delivering the localised needs of Daventry town, let alone contributing towards the wider needs of Northampton; and Once again drawing on the comments of SNC it is clear that the LPP2 fails to effectively deal with cross- boundary strategic matters. Indeed these matters have instead been deferred to some later date, a move that will see the spatial strategy of the LPP2 significantly challenged upon its adoption with the potential for the housing supply position in West Northamptonshire to reach critical levels in the meantime. Please refer to our attached letter and Enclosure 1 for an expansion of our concerns. PS082 5. Please set out what modification(s) you consider necessary to make the Local Plan legally compliant or sound, having regard to the matter you have identified at part 4(1) or 4(3) above where this relates to soundness. (NB Please note that any non-compliance with the duty to co- operate is incapable of modification at examination). You will need to say why this modification will make the Local Plan legally compliant or sound. It will be helpful if you are able to put forward your suggested revised wording of any policy or text. Please be as precise as possible. We support the intent of Policy SP1 and recommend that it is retained in its current wording. However, to make it sound it must be supported by a number of additional complementary policies allocating sufficient sites across the District that will enable both the objectively assessed needs of Daventry and the wider needs of the NRDA to be met. (Continue on a separate sheet/expand box if necessary) Please note your representation should cover succinctly all the information, evidence and supporting information necessary to support/justify the representation and the suggested modification, as there will not normally be a subsequent opportunity to make further representations based on the original representation at publication stage. After this stage, further submissions will be only at the request of the Inspector, based on the matter and issues he/she identifies for examination. 6. If your representation is seeking a modification, do you consider it necessary to participate at the oral part of the examination? (please tick as appropriate) No, I do not wish to participate at Yes, I wish to participate at YES the oral examination the oral examination PS082 7. If you wish to participate at the oral part of the examination, please outline why you consider this to be necessary. Matters in relation to the spatial strategy of the plan go to the very heart of our client’s concerns with the way in which the document has been prepared. The issues with the spatial strategy, and the way in which it is currently deficient in respect of meeting the needs of the District in particular, are indivisible from the opportunity that our client presents in respect of the delivery of an additional entirely sustainable urban extension to the South East of Daventry town. Discussion at the examination around the concerns identified in our accompanying evidence, along with the central role that our client’s land will play in satisfying them, would be greatly beneficial. Part B: Please use a separate sheet for each representation Please note all comments will be made publically available. If you do not have sufficient space in the box please continue on a separate sheet or expand the box. 3. To which part of the Local Plan Paragraph Policy number Policies Maps does this representation relate? number EC9 Daventry South East Gateway 4. Do you consider the Local Plan is: (please tick in the box below as appropriate and then provide details in the space below) 4. (1) Legally compliant? Yes YES No 4. (2) Compliant with the Duty to Yes YES No co-operate? 4. (3) Sound? Yes No NO PS082 4 (1) Please give details of why you consider the Local Plan is not legally compliant, be as precise as possible. 4 (2) Please give details of why you consider the Local Plan does not comply with the duty to co-operate, be as precise as possible. 4 (3) Please give details of why you consider the Local Plan is not sound, referring to the tests of soundness as appropriate, be as precise as possible. Not Justified The approach to the delivery of the employment land covered by Policy EC9 fails to take into account the wider opportunities offered by our client’s land to deliver an entirely sustainable mixed-use urban extension to the town; Similarly, the approach fails to seize a compelling opportunity to deliver a cohesive ‘gateway’ to the town in line with the Council’s long-standing ambition to do so set out in the Daventry Masterplan 2040; and To this end the strategy is in fact perverse in that it conflicts entirely with the significant line of evidence produced by the Council associated with the delivery of the South East SUE, evidence that consistently confirms the benefits of such an extension to the town. Please refer to our attached letter and Enclosure 2 for an expansion of our concerns and constructive comments. 5. Please set out what modification(s) you consider necessary to make the Local Plan legally compliant or sound, having regard to the matter you have identified at part 4(1) or 4(3) above where this relates to soundness. (NB Please note that any non-compliance with the duty to co- operate is incapable of modification at examination). You will need to say why this modification will make the Local Plan legally compliant or sound. It will be helpful if you are able to put forward your suggested revised wording of any policy or text. Please be as precise as possible. Our proposed modifications relate to the wording of the policy and the way it should acknowledge the delivery of our client’s land to the north. A full schedule of amendments is included at Enclosure 2 of our accompanying submission. PS082 Please note your representation should cover succinctly all the information, evidence and supporting information necessary to support/justify the representation and the suggested modification, as there will not normally be a subsequent opportunity to make further representations based on the original representation at publication stage. After this stage, further submissions will be only at the request of the Inspector, based on the matter and issues he/she identifies for examination. 6. If your representation is seeking a modification, do you consider it necessary to participate at the oral part of the examination? (please tick as appropriate) No, I do not wish to participate at Yes, I wish to participate at YES the oral examination the oral examination 7. If you wish to participate at the oral part of the examination, please outline why you consider this to be necessary.
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