1 About Wallington
Comment
Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023
Representation ID: 10353
Received: 04/08/2023
Respondent: Natural England - East of England Region
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See attached representation
Comment
Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023
Representation ID: 10354
Received: 04/08/2023
Respondent: Hertfordshire County Council
This response is sent by Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) Property (Property Planning Team) on behalf of the county council as landowner in response to the Submission Version of the Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031.
HCC as landowner have no comments to make on this plan.
This response is sent by Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) Property (Property Planning Team) on behalf of the county council as landowner in response to the Submission Version of the Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031.
HCC as landowner have no comments to make on this plan.
Comment
Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023
Representation ID: 10355
Received: 03/08/2023
Respondent: Historic England
Thank you for inviting Historic England to comment on the above consultation. We welcome the production of this neighbourhood plan in principle but, owing to staff vacancies, we do not currently have capacity to provide detailed comments.
We would refer you to any detailed comments we may have made at earlier stages of the plan’s production including Regulation 14 and where it was required, SEA screening/scoping and draft report stages.
Our detailed advice on successfully incorporating historic environment considerations into neighbourhood plan, alongside some useful case studies, can be found here: https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/planning/plan-making/improve-your-neighbourhood/.
To avoid any doubt, this letter does not reflect our obligation to provide further advice on or, potentially, object to specific proposals which may subsequently arise as a result of the proposed plan, where we consider these would have an adverse effect on the historic environment.
Thank you for inviting Historic England to comment on the above consultation. We welcome the production of this neighbourhood plan in principle but, owing to staff vacancies, we do not currently have capacity to provide detailed comments.
We would refer you to any detailed comments we may have made at earlier stages of the plan’s production including Regulation 14 and where it was required, SEA screening/scoping and draft report stages.
Our detailed advice on successfully incorporating historic environment considerations into neighbourhood plan, alongside some useful case studies, can be found here: https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/planning/plan-making/improve-your-neighbourhood/.
To avoid any doubt, this letter does not reflect our obligation to provide further advice on or, potentially, object to specific proposals which may subsequently arise as a result of the proposed plan, where we consider these would have an adverse effect on the historic environment.
Comment
Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023
Representation ID: 10356
Received: 27/07/2023
Respondent: National Highways
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See attached representation
Comment
Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023
Representation ID: 10357
Received: 25/07/2023
Respondent: Sport England - East Region
Sport England wished to provide the following comments on the above neighbourhood plan.
Government planning policy, within the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), identifies how the planning system can play an important role in facilitating social interaction and creating healthy, inclusive communities. Encouraging communities to become more physically active through walking, cycling, informal recreation and formal sport plays an important part in this process. Providing enough sports facilities of the right quality and type in the right places is vital to achieving this aim. This means that positive planning for sport, protection from the unnecessary loss of sports facilities, along with an integrated approach to providing new housing and employment land with community facilities is important.
It is essential therefore that the neighbourhood plan reflects and complies with national planning policy for sport as set out in the NPPF with particular reference to Pars 98 and 99. It is also important to be aware of Sport England’s statutory consultee role in protecting playing fields and the presumption against the loss of playing field land. Sport England’s playing fields policy is set out in our Playing Fields Policy and Guidance document.
https://www.sportengland.org/how-we-can-help/facilities-and-planning/planning-for-sport#playing_fields_policy
Sport England provides guidance on developing planning policy for sport and further information can be found via the link below. Vital to the development and implementation of planning policy is the evidence base on which it is founded.
https://www.sportengland.org/how-we-can-help/facilities-and-planning/planning-for-sport#planning_applications
Sport England works with local authorities to ensure their Local Plan is underpinned by robust and up to date evidence. In line with Par 99 of the NPPF, this takes the form of assessments of need and strategies for indoor and outdoor sports facilities. A neighbourhood planning body should look to see if the relevant local authority has prepared a playing pitch strategy or other indoor/outdoor sports facility strategy. If it has then this could provide useful evidence for the neighbourhood plan and save the neighbourhood planning body time and resources gathering their own evidence. It is important that a neighbourhood plan reflects the recommendations and actions set out in any such strategies, including those which may specifically relate to the neighbourhood area, and that any local investment opportunities, such as the Community Infrastructure Levy, are utilised to support their delivery.
Where such evidence does not already exist then relevant planning policies in a neighbourhood plan should be based on a proportionate assessment of the need for sporting provision in its area. Developed in consultation with the local sporting and wider community any assessment should be used to provide key recommendations and deliverable actions. These should set out what provision is required to ensure the current and future needs of the community for sport can be met and, in turn, be able to support the development and implementation of planning policies. Sport England’s guidance on assessing needs may help with such work.
http://www.sportengland.org/planningtoolsandguidance
If new or improved sports facilities are proposed Sport England recommend you ensure they are fit for purpose and designed in accordance with our design guidance notes.
http://www.sportengland.org/facilities-planning/tools-guidance/design-and-cost-guidance/
Any new housing developments will generate additional demand for sport. If existing sports facilities do not have the capacity to absorb the additional demand, then planning policies should look to ensure that new sports facilities, or improvements to existing sports facilities, are secured and delivered. Proposed actions to meet the demand should accord with any approved local plan or neighbourhood plan policy for social infrastructure, along with priorities resulting from any assessment of need, or set out in any playing pitch or other indoor and/or outdoor sports facility strategy that the local authority has in place.
In line with the Government’s NPPF (including Section 8) and its Planning Practice Guidance (Health and wellbeing section), links below, consideration should also be given to how any new development, especially for new housing, will provide opportunities for people to lead healthy lifestyles and create healthy communities. Sport England’s Active Design guidance can be used to help with this when developing planning policies and developing or assessing individual proposals.
Active Design, which includes a model planning policy, provides ten principles to help ensure the design and layout of development encourages and promotes participation in sport and physical activity. The guidance, and its accompanying checklist, could also be used at the evidence gathering stage of developing a neighbourhood plan to help undertake an assessment of how the design and layout of the area currently enables people to lead active lifestyles and what could be improved.
NPPF Section 8: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-planning-policy-framework/8-promoting-healthy-communities
PPG Health and wellbeing section: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/health-and-wellbeing
Sport England’s Active Design Guidance: https://www.sportengland.org/activedesign
(Please note: this response relates to Sport England’s planning function only. It is not associated with our funding role or any grant application/award that may relate to the site.)
Sport England wished to provide the following comments on the above neighbourhood plan.
Government planning policy, within the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), identifies how the planning system can play an important role in facilitating social interaction and creating healthy, inclusive communities. Encouraging communities to become more physically active through walking, cycling, informal recreation and formal sport plays an important part in this process. Providing enough sports facilities of the right quality and type in the right places is vital to achieving this aim. This means that positive planning for sport, protection from the unnecessary loss of sports facilities, along with an integrated approach to providing new housing and employment land with community facilities is important.
It is essential therefore that the neighbourhood plan reflects and complies with national planning policy for sport as set out in the NPPF with particular reference to Pars 98 and 99. It is also important to be aware of Sport England’s statutory consultee role in protecting playing fields and the presumption against the loss of playing field land. Sport England’s playing fields policy is set out in our Playing Fields Policy and Guidance document.
https://www.sportengland.org/how-we-can-help/facilities-and-planning/planning-for-sport#playing_fields_policy
Sport England provides guidance on developing planning policy for sport and further information can be found via the link below. Vital to the development and implementation of planning policy is the evidence base on which it is founded.
https://www.sportengland.org/how-we-can-help/facilities-and-planning/planning-for-sport#planning_applications
Sport England works with local authorities to ensure their Local Plan is underpinned by robust and up to date evidence. In line with Par 99 of the NPPF, this takes the form of assessments of need and strategies for indoor and outdoor sports facilities. A neighbourhood planning body should look to see if the relevant local authority has prepared a playing pitch strategy or other indoor/outdoor sports facility strategy. If it has then this could provide useful evidence for the neighbourhood plan and save the neighbourhood planning body time and resources gathering their own evidence. It is important that a neighbourhood plan reflects the recommendations and actions set out in any such strategies, including those which may specifically relate to the neighbourhood area, and that any local investment opportunities, such as the Community Infrastructure Levy, are utilised to support their delivery.
Where such evidence does not already exist then relevant planning policies in a neighbourhood plan should be based on a proportionate assessment of the need for sporting provision in its area. Developed in consultation with the local sporting and wider community any assessment should be used to provide key recommendations and deliverable actions. These should set out what provision is required to ensure the current and future needs of the community for sport can be met and, in turn, be able to support the development and implementation of planning policies. Sport England’s guidance on assessing needs may help with such work.
http://www.sportengland.org/planningtoolsandguidance
If new or improved sports facilities are proposed Sport England recommend you ensure they are fit for purpose and designed in accordance with our design guidance notes.
http://www.sportengland.org/facilities-planning/tools-guidance/design-and-cost-guidance/
Any new housing developments will generate additional demand for sport. If existing sports facilities do not have the capacity to absorb the additional demand, then planning policies should look to ensure that new sports facilities, or improvements to existing sports facilities, are secured and delivered. Proposed actions to meet the demand should accord with any approved local plan or neighbourhood plan policy for social infrastructure, along with priorities resulting from any assessment of need, or set out in any playing pitch or other indoor and/or outdoor sports facility strategy that the local authority has in place.
In line with the Government’s NPPF (including Section 8) and its Planning Practice Guidance (Health and wellbeing section), links below, consideration should also be given to how any new development, especially for new housing, will provide opportunities for people to lead healthy lifestyles and create healthy communities. Sport England’s Active Design guidance can be used to help with this when developing planning policies and developing or assessing individual proposals.
Active Design, which includes a model planning policy, provides ten principles to help ensure the design and layout of development encourages and promotes participation in sport and physical activity. The guidance, and its accompanying checklist, could also be used at the evidence gathering stage of developing a neighbourhood plan to help undertake an assessment of how the design and layout of the area currently enables people to lead active lifestyles and what could be improved.
NPPF Section 8: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-planning-policy-framework/8-promoting-healthy-communities
PPG Health and wellbeing section: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/health-and-wellbeing
Sport England’s Active Design Guidance: https://www.sportengland.org/activedesign
(Please note: this response relates to Sport England’s planning function only. It is not associated with our funding role or any grant application/award that may relate to the site.)
Comment
Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023
Representation ID: 10358
Received: 11/08/2023
Respondent: Mr Brian Worrell
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See attached representation
Comment
Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023
Representation ID: 10359
Received: 24/08/2023
Respondent: Hertfordshire County Council - Spatial Planning and Economy Unit Minerals and Waste Team
See attached representation
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Comment
Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023
Representation ID: 10366
Received: 24/08/2023
Respondent: National Gas Transmission
Agent: Avison Young
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Comment
Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023
Representation ID: 10367
Received: 24/08/2023
Respondent: National Grid
Agent: Avison Young
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Comment
Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023
Representation ID: 10369
Received: 29/08/2023
Respondent: Hertfordshire County Council
Thank you for consulting HCC on the Wallington Neighbourhood Plan. HCC welcomes the inclusion of our previous comments. We have no further comments to make on the submission version of the Neighbourhood Plan.
Thank you for consulting HCC on the Wallington Neighbourhood Plan. HCC welcomes the inclusion of our previous comments. We have no further comments to make on the submission version of the Neighbourhood Plan.
Comment
Wallington Neighbourhood Plan 2022 - 2031 Submission Version June 2023
Representation ID: 10370
Received: 29/08/2023
Respondent: North Herts Council
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