Representations at Pre-Submission Consultation
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PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY: LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK CORE STRATEGY REPRESENTATIONS Reg 28 pre-Submission consultation December 2010 Peak District National Park Authority Member of the English National Park Authorities Association (ENPAA) Aldern House Baslow Road Bakewell Derbyshire DE45 1AE Tel: (01629) 816 200 Text: (01629) 816 319 Fax: (01629) 816 310 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.peakdistrict.gov.uk We are happy to provide this information in alternative formats on request where reasonable. If you require the document in one of these formats please contact: Brian Taylor, Policy Planning Manager, Peak District National Park at the address above, Tel: 01629 816303, or email [email protected]. LDF Administration Key statistics 342 representations have been made so far. 44 were from Individuals, 28 were from Agents & 270 were from Organisations. Representations received Representation 1. From: Mr William Moss (no organisation) Personal Correspondence Address: Morley Lodge, , , , S32 1BB Home phone: 0 Work phone: 0 (ext. 0) Mobile: 0 Submitted by Representor - Individual Representation on Subsection: 8.21. Legally compliant? Yes Sound? Unsound - It has not been prepared in accordance with the Authoritys Local Development Scheme (LDS). Details: n/a Proposed changes: I do not consider that health, safety and well-being has anything to do with the PDNPA - this should be removed Oral hearing requested? NO. Details: Representation 2. From: Mr William Moss (no organisation) Personal Correspondence Address: Morley Lodge, , , , S32 1BB Home phone: 0 Work phone: 0 (ext. 0) Mobile: 0 Submitted by Representor - Individual Representation on Subsection: 9.6. Legally compliant? Yes Sound? Unsound - It has not been prepared in accordance with the Authoritys Local Development Scheme (LDS). Details: n/a Proposed changes: a stronger level of protection will apply to conservation areas - house and landowners are already agrieved by the level of intrusion from the PDNPA. This suggestion should be re-appraised Oral hearing requested? NO. Details: Representation 3. From: Mr William Moss (no organisation) Personal Correspondence Address: Morley Lodge, , , , S32 1BB Home phone: 0 Work phone: 0 (ext. 0) Mobile: 0 Submitted by Representor - Individual Representation on Subsection: 9.33. Legally compliant? Yes Sound? Unsound - It has not been prepared in accordance with the Authoritys Local Development Scheme (LDS). Details: n/a Proposed changes: as custodians of the national park,the NPA will provide robust protection of the assets - this is an arrogant assumption made by the writer of this Core Strategy - the real guardians should be the people who live in and own the land and property Oral hearing requested? NO. Details: Representation 4. From: Mr William Moss (no organisation) Personal Correspondence Address: Morley Lodge, , , , S32 1BB Home phone: 0 Work phone: 0 (ext. 0) Mobile: 0 Submitted by Representor - Individual Representation on Subsection: 4.18. Legally compliant? Yes Sound? Unsound - It has not been prepared in accordance with the Authoritys Local Development Scheme (LDS). Details: n/a Proposed changes: states that the Authority will make efforts to prevent the change of use of buildings away from retail and community - if shops and pubs are economically unviable will the PDNPA provide finance to help? I do not think so. This policy should be re-thought Oral hearing requested? NO. Details: Representation 5. From: Mr William Moss (no organisation) Personal Correspondence Address: Morley Lodge, , , , S32 1BB Home phone: 0 Work phone: 0 (ext. 0) Mobile: 0 Submitted by Representor - Individual Representation on Subsection: 4.31. Legally compliant? Yes Sound? Unsound - Not Specified Details: n/a Proposed changes: public transport is not generally good enough to discourage car use - but the Authority plan to make the use of cars more difficult - they should get real Oral hearing requested? NO. Details: Representation 6. From: Mr William Moss (no organisation) Personal Correspondence Address: Morley Lodge, , , , S32 1BB Home phone: 0 Work phone: 0 (ext. 0) Mobile: 0 Submitted by Representor - Individual Representation on Subsection: 4.14. Legally compliant? Yes Sound? Unsound - It has not been prepared in accordance with the Authoritys Local Development Scheme (LDS). Details: n/a Proposed changes: not replace expensive fossil fuels with incongruous renewable energy infrastructure - I doubt that we can have it both ways. Preventing huge wind turbines is one thing but preventing homeowners from installing solar panels is totally unreasonable Oral hearing requested? NO. Details: Representation 7. From: Mr William Moss (no organisation) Personal Correspondence Address: Morley Lodge, , , , S32 1BB Home phone: 0 Work phone: 0 (ext. 0) Mobile: 0 Submitted by Representor - Individual Representation on Subsection: 15.10. Legally compliant? Yes Sound? Unsound - It has not been prepared in accordance with the Authoritys Local Development Scheme (LDS). Details: n/a Proposed changes: encouraging the use of cycling - do the PDNPA seriously think that everyone is young and fit enough to ride a bike to work on a dark wet winters morning? Another rubbish policy Oral hearing requested? NO. Details: Representation 9. From: Mr William Moss (no organisation) Personal Correspondence Address: Morley Lodge, , , , S32 1BB Home phone: 0 Work phone: 0 (ext. 0) Mobile: 0 Submitted by Representor - Individual Representation on Subsection: 15.14. Legally compliant? Yes Sound? Unsound - It has not been prepared in accordance with the Authoritys Local Development Scheme (LDS). Details: n/a Proposed changes: there will be innovative and sustainable mechanisms of alleviating the adverse impacts of traffic along the A628 - this may well affect me personally - so the Authority should spell out exactly what it is planning to do so that the people who will be directly affected can make a judgement before this Core Policy becomes official Oral hearing requested? NO. Details: Representation 10. From: Mr William Moss (no organisation) Personal Correspondence Address: Morley Lodge, , , , S32 1BB Home phone: 0 Work phone: 0 (ext. 0) Mobile: 0 Submitted by Representor - Individual Representation on Subsection: 15.39. Legally compliant? Yes Sound? Unsound - It has not been prepared in accordance with the Authoritys Local Development Scheme (LDS). Details: n/a Proposed changes: successive local policies have kept parking in housing devopments to a minimum. This is madness - all it achieves is cars being left in totally unsuitable places Oral hearing requested? NO. Details: Representation 11. From: Martin Clayton, Geoplan Limited Work Correspondence Address: Unit 7, Heritage Business Centre, , Belper Road Derby, , DE56 1SW Home phone: 0 Work phone: 0 (ext. 0) Mobile: 0 Submitted by Agent on behalf of Marshalls Natural Stone Representation on Section: MIN3 Subsection: 14.12 - 14.32. Legally compliant? Yes Sound? Unsound - The strategies/policies/allocations fail to represent the most appropriate in all the circumstances, having considered the relevant alternatives, and they are not founded on a robust and credible evidence base. Details: This representation is made on behalf of Marshalls Natural Stone, one of the largest suppliers of natural dimensional, building and walling stone in the country. My clients object to the text in relation to Minerals Development as set out in the strategy document, with specific reference to those paragraphs and policies detailed below which relate to Building and Roofing Stone on the grounds that : 1. The strategies/policies/allocations in the plan fail to represent the most appropriate in all the circumstances having considered the relevant alternatives, and they are not founded on a robust and credible evidence base and 2. The plan is not reasonably flexible to enable it to deal with changing circumstances. Paragraph 14.12 acknowledges the need to balance the long standing competing factors of the need for building and roofing stone for use in heritage protection, against the requirement to protect the natural environment. It then goes on to state that the Core Strategy seeks to achieve this balance. It is my client’s contention that it fails to achieve this aim as the balance has been unreasonably weighted in favour of the natural environment to the detriment of heritage protection. Paragraph 14.17 acknowledges the need for flexibility, but then goes on to propose policies that are highly restrictive and inflexible. Paragraph 14.17 also states that the objective of the authority is to gradually reduce the amount of aggregates and other land-won minerals within the National Park. This fails to make any distinction between the differences in scale, local employment opportunities and potential environmental impacts that exist between a quarry producing high volumes of aggregates for the construction market and a typically low key building stone quarry. These differences are recognised in ODPM report ‘Planning for the Supply of Natural Building and Roofing Stone in England and Wales’ 2004, which examined the issues affecting the supply and demand of indigenous building stone in the UK. In particular, the report focussed on the problems of sourcing appropriate stone to repair historic buildings and recommended that Mineral Planning Authorities should identify and protect 'heritage quarries'. The report confirms that ninety percent of all active and intermittent building stone quarries are very small,