Harvington Neighbourhood Development Plan - Consultation Statement Regulation 16 Statutory Consultation 23 September 2018 Contents 1 Introduction................................................................................................................3 2 Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group...............................................................................5 3 Chronology of community consultation and participation...................................................6 4 Consultation highlights.................................................................................................7 5 Consultation Event Records.........................................................................................11 6 Regulation 14 consultation..........................................................................................22 7 Frequently Asked Questions........................................................................................28 Appendix A – Steering Group.........................................................................................29 Appendix B – Residents’ survey – methodology................................................................35 Purpose...................................................................................................................35 Publicity and invitations.............................................................................................35 Confidentiality..........................................................................................................35 Publication of results.................................................................................................36 Survey Definition......................................................................................................36 Avoidance of positional bias.......................................................................................37 Analysis of priorities..................................................................................................37 How was personal information protected?....................................................................37 How were eMail addresses validated?..........................................................................38 Survey integrity.......................................................................................................38 What was the Survey Access Code?............................................................................38 Appendix C – Residents’ survey – questions.....................................................................40 Welcome.................................................................................................................41 Local Facilities..........................................................................................................42 Community Asset Register.........................................................................................51 Environment and Heritage.........................................................................................51 Local Green Spaces...................................................................................................53 Employment and business in Harvington.....................................................................54 Transport................................................................................................................58 Housing...................................................................................................................61 Location of housing development................................................................................62 Appendix D – Brief summary of residents’ survey results...................................................68 Appendix E – Residents’ survey – full results....................................................................71 Welcome.................................................................................................................71 Local Facilities..........................................................................................................72 Community Asset Register.........................................................................................77 Environment and Heritage.........................................................................................77 Local Green Spaces...................................................................................................78 Employment and business in Harvington.....................................................................79 Page 1 of 262 Transport................................................................................................................81 Housing...................................................................................................................83 Location of housing development................................................................................84 Extended housing location analysis.............................................................................87 Inferred preferences for development sites..................................................................91 TEXTUAL RESPONSES...............................................................................................91 Appendix F – Business survey......................................................................................127 Appendix G – Housing Need Survey – Questions.............................................................140 Appendix H – Housing Survey – WRCC Analysis..............................................................142 Appendix I – Ten year housing stock analysis.................................................................150 Appendix I-1 – Response rate by tenure type.............................................................155 Appendix I-2 – Movement intentions.........................................................................156 Appendix I-3 – Housing Stock Changes.....................................................................158 Appendix I-4 – Assisted accommodation....................................................................159 Appendix J – Statutory Consultees................................................................................160 Appendix K – Regulation 14 consultation – responses......................................................162 Appendix L – Regulation 14 consultation – actions taken.................................................195 Appendix M – Significant policy changes........................................................................241 Executive summary.................................................................................................241 Document-wide changes..........................................................................................241 Individual policy changes.........................................................................................242 Appendix N – Frequently Asked Questions.....................................................................250 Appendix O – Responses to Local Green Spaces consultation............................................255 Appendix P – Objection to “The Common” LGS designation..............................................257 Page 2 of 262 1 Introduction 1.1 This Consultation Statement (CS) has been prepared to fulfil the legal obligations of Section 12(2) of Part 5 of the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations 2012 (as amended) in respect of the Harvington Neighbourhood Plan. 1.2 It is required to contain details of the persons and bodies who were consulted as part of the formation of the Harvington Neighbourhood Plan (NP)1. 1.3 This CS contains: Details of who was consulted, An explanation of how they were consulted, A summary of the main issues and concerns raised during consultation and References to the Evidence, Reasoning and Justification (ERJ) document2, which records how these issues were considered, analysed and addressed in the NP. 1.4 It is structured as follows: Constitution of the Steering Group, which had community activity as its core ethos, Chronological overview of consultation activities, A ‘bullet point’ summary of all the consultations, Detailed records of the significant, data-intensive consultations, Photographic and descriptive records of consultation events. Appendices containing detailed consultatioin records 1.5 The consultations included major, detailed research undertaken within the village to provide community-derived evidence. The research reports, and associated analysis, are available as follows: Research Subject Appendix content Appendix Residents Research methodology B Survey questions C Summary of responses D Detailed responses, including textual comments E Local businesses Survey form and results F Housing Need Survey questions G WRCC report and analysis H Ten-year housing stock analysis I 1.6 The NP also incorporates findings and recommendations from the Harvington Parish Plan & Village Design Statement of 20103, which itself involved extensive community consultation. 1.7 This CS also describes the process and results of the Regulation 14 Statutory Consultation. Descriptions of the documents recording the responses and subsequent 1 https://harvington-pc.org.uk/np/np.pdf 2 https://harvington-pc.org.uk/np/erj.pdf 3 https://harvington-pc.org.uk/np/parishPlan/Parish_Plan_&_VDS.pdf Page 3 of 262 analysis are given in detail later in this Statement, but, for convenience, the appendices describing