Ref: Denmead Neighbourhood Plan Publication Stage Representation Form (For official use only) Name of the document this relates to: Denmead Neighbourhood Plan Please return to: Head of Strategic Planning, Winchester City Council, City Offices, Colebrook Street, Winchester, Hampshire SO23 9LJ or by email to [email protected] no later than 5pm on Tuesday 11 November 2014. Please remember that the examiner is only testing whether the plan meets the basic conditions and other relevant legal requirements set out in the Localism Act. They are not testing the soundness of the plan or looking at other material considerations. This form has two parts – Part A – Personal Details Part B – Your representation(s). Please fill in a separate Part B 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 2. Title Mr Mr First Name Steve Robert Last Name Abbley Tutton Job Title Chairman Director (where relevant) Robert Tutton Town Planning Organisation Quickmoveproperties Consultants Limited (where relevant) Address Line 1 23 Romsey Avenue Line 2 Fareham Line 3 Hampshire Line 4 Post Code PO16 9TR Telephone Number 01329.825985 E-mail Address [email protected] (where relevant) Part B – Please use a separate sheet for each representation Name or Organisation : Robert Tutton for Quickmoveproperties 3. To which part of the Denmead Neighbourhood Plan does this representation relate? Please state which Paragraph Policy number Proposals number Map & Inset X 4. Is your representation: (1) Supporting (2) Objecting X (3) Commenting 5. Please set out clearly why you are objecting to, or supporting, the specific areas of the plan. If you are objecting, please set out what change(s) you consider are necessary to make the plan able to meet the “basic conditions”. The ‘Community and Social Infrastructure’ section of the Denmead Neighbourhood Plan Submission records that local bus services are available to take Denmead residents to Waterlooville, Horndean School, QA Hospital and Portsmouth; local children may attend Denmead Infant School and Denmead Junior Schools or Cowplain Community Secondary School; and health facilities are provided by Denmead Doctors Surgery and Denmead Dental, both of which are located on Hambledon Road. Denmead is a sustainable location for residential development and, for that reason, Policy MTRA2 of the Winchester Joint Core Strategy proposes ‘ about 250 new houses’ in and about the village, together with improvements to public transport. Comparison of the Settlement Boundary shown on ‘Map 7 Denmead’ of the Winchester District Local Plan Review and that presented in the ‘Denmead Neighbourhood Plan Plan Submission’ confirms that the Settlement Boundary has not been fundamentally reviewed as part of the work on preparing the Neighbourhood Plan. As a consequence, anomalies in the Settlement Boundary that was adopted in 2006 have not been addressed or resolved; if they are not given attention now, they will continue to (mis)guide development control decisions for another 17 years, as that is the lifetime of the Denmead Neighbourhood Plan. One such anomaly is evident in respect of the dwellings that stand on the east side of Bunkers Hill, to the south of Forest Road. The dwellings at Bunkers Hill stand just 540 metres away from the west end of the village centre and are resultantly within six minutes walk of its services and facilities. By comparison, groups of dwellings at Edney’s Lane and Inhams Lane stand further away from those facilities - they stand 645 and 675 metres from the village centre, respectively. Although the dwellings of Bunkers Hill enjoy better access to facilities than those of Edney’s Lane and Inhams Lane, the latter have been included within the Settlement Boundary but Bunkers Hill has not. There is also concern with the inconsistent manner in which the Settlement Boundary has been defined. Road frontages with as few as three or five dwellings (as at Edney’s Lane, to the north of Anmore Road, opposite the north end of Mill Road) or six dwellings (as on the east side of Inhams Lane) have been seen to form part of the Denmead settlement and consequently been included within the defined Settlement Boundary, while the block of thirteen dwellings that stand on the east side of Bunkers Hill (and turn the corner into Forest Road) have been excluded from the Settlement Boundary – their exclusion would render proposals within the group the subject of restrictive countryside policies, when the sustainability, scale and character of the group suggests that further development should be accepted. It is surely a basic condition of plan formulation that, whether one uses ‘accessibility to services’ or ‘dwelling group size’ as the measure, it is consistently applied . Whether one uses ‘accessibility to services’ or ‘dwelling group size’ as the test, Bunkers Hill displays advantages over parts of Denmead that are already included within the Settlement Boundary. No issue is taken with the inclusion of the Edneys Lane or Inhams Lane dwelling groups within the Settlement Boundary; it is submitted, however, that the consistent application of ‘accessibility’ or ‘group size’ criteria should lead one to conclude that the east side of Bunkers Hill should be included within the Settlement Boundary of Denmead, in order to facilitate residential infill development that would accord with its existing character. Proposed change. Include the existing dwellings on the east side on Bunkers Hill within the Settlement Boundary, between Forest Road and Hill Brow Lodge, as shown on the attached sketch plan. (Continue on a separate sheet /expand box if necessary) Future Notification 6. If you wish to be notified of Winchester City Council’s decision to ‘make’ the plan, please tick the box below Yes, I would like to be notified of Winchester City Council’s decision to ‘make’ the plan X Data Protection The information collected will be processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The forms will be stored electronically. Your details and comments will be forwarded to the Examiner for consideration. All representations received must be made available for public inspection, and therefore cannot be treated as confidential. They will be posted on the Council’s website and will be available, on request, for public inspection: signatures, email addresses and phone numbers will be redacted. .