FEERING PARISH COUNCIL Feering Community Centre, Coggeshall Road, Feering, Colchester, Essex

FEERING PARISH COUNCIL Feering Community Centre, Coggeshall Road, Feering, Colchester, Essex. CO5 9QB Telephone: (01376) 572882 (24-hour Answerphone) email: [email protected] Thank you for the opportunity to be consulted on Tiptree’s Neighbourhood Plan and on behalf of Feering Parish Council we comment as follows:

POLICY TIP01: Tiptree Settlement Boundaries

• The 600 homes allocation does not include the Wilkin & Sons site (Developer: Crest Nicolson) or the Vine Road development - both of which are nearing completion and these sites are closer to the village Centre. • Considering Colchester's Council's Local Plan has effectively been rejected due to the Inspector finding two of the Garden Villages unsound, do the sections of Tiptree's plan referencing Colchester’s Local Plan including the CBC required housing number of 600 homes need to be re-visited?

POLICY TP05: Dwelling Mix

• The new homes are not located near to Tiptree Centre and as a need to provide for an increasing number of older residents has been identified, the proposed sites - especially the north-west Elm Farm site isolates the older community from amenities.

8. TRAFFIC & MOVEMENT: policies TIP06 and TIP07. 12. SITE ALLOCATIONS: policies TIP12 - TIP14

The objectives and text mention the issues with inadequate transport links to the A12 and neighbouring towns and railway stations, but these are not addressed in any of the policies.

• The majority of the proposed allocation of homes (600) are allocated near to the B1023, Kelvedon / Inworth Road. This additional scale of development would have a significant impact on the existing overstretched local highway infrastructure and congestion problems which would be further compounded by the other proposed Inworth road (housing)developments sites (i.e. Crown Estates Land in Feering). • To alleviate this, the Tiptree plan policies should /must include the requirement for an all ways A12 junction including a means of connecting the Inworth /Kelvedon Road to the A12 (southbound and northbound) that takes away the need for traffic to go through Feering and Kelvedon to access the A12. These infrastructure improvements need to be in place prior to / contiguous with these sites being constructed in order to remove traffic from the current overstretched and congested highway infrastructure. • TIP 14 C: The north-west Elms Farm site (225 or 230 homes allocation), which is on the north- west boundary of Tiptree parish, appears to be particularly unsustainable and intrusive into the surrounding countryside. The plan includes an "indicative route corridor" which is across farmland in the parish of Messing-cum-Inworth not Tiptree. The text on page 38 specifically states that "No development is planned in the section between these two areas that lies outside the parish boundary and therefore outside the direct influence of this Neighbourhood Plan".

GENERAL COMMENTS • There appears to be little on sustainability and/or climate change policies, merely ensuring that traffic flows freely within Tiptree, hence the allocation of development near to the Inworth Road (refer to the above comments). • We consider that there has been a lack of engagement with Feering Parish Council particularly with regards to transport (A12, railway station) and traffic matters especially as we have common interests and we further extend our invitation to attend our joint Neighbourhood plan meetings which are attended by other surrounding parishes.