Local Plan 2011-2031 Proposed Submission Draft

My wife and I would like to make the following objections to the Local Plan:-

Object to Chapter 4, Policy SP8

The plan provides excess housing to the detriment of open countryside. Sites, including SP2, have been added belatedly and should be removed as they are not needed. There is no policy basis for increasing the buffer to 7% from the previously accepted 3%.

Object to Chapter 4, Policy SP2

Flawed evidence is used to identify sustainable villages, which results in isolated villages with little infrastructure being seen as suitable for significant development. Moreover, Whitwell is accessed by very narrow country lanes requiring passing places.

Object to Chapter 13, Site Allocation SP2

There is no need for SP2 to meet housing need. The NHDC approach is not sound. It does not comply with NPPF as no consideration has been taken of flood risk and a sequential approach has not been followed in site selection. It was also added at a late stage with an allocation of greater than 5ha - this conflicts with NHDC evidence that large housing extensions to Whitwell could have an unacceptable visual impact on cross country views.

Object to Chapter 13, Site Allocation SP2

The site has a known and identified high risk of surface water flooding as recognised in the Council's Strategic Flood Risk Assessment. As the NPPF states that development should be steered to areas with the lowest chance of flooding, site SP2 should only be considered if there is an identified need that cannot be met elsewhere.

Object to Chapter 13, Site Allocation SP2

The proposed development is not in a sustainable location and will depend on private transport for most travel; this in a village which is already badly congested.

NPPF Requirement to empower local people to shape their surroundings (Paragraph 150)

Our local community is ignored in the Local Plan. NHDC is wholly aware of local feeling towards potential development of this site. The site is not needed to meet the identified housing need, yet NHDC Planners remain determined to use this site notwithstanding local objections, environmental and flooding concerns, together with the visual impact on the intrinsic beauty of the countryside. Thames Water state lack of sewerage capacity. The Planners, inexplicably, even ignore their own Planning Committee who recently rejected the site for development.


Object to the allocation of SP2 for housing

The Local Plan Preferred Option allocated the site for Green Belt, which was fully supported by the Parish Council. No justification for the site no longer being categorised as Green Belt is provided by NHDC. Latest figures (reduction in OAN) show that SP2 is not needed for housing. The Local Plan pragmatically adds in late sites. The submission has not given the Parish Council or Whitwell villagers the opportunity to be empowered and has ignored their wishes for SP2 to remain Green Belt.

It is for the reasons above that we consider SP2 should be removed from the 2011 - 2031 Local Plan.

My wife and I would like to make the following objections to the Local Plan:-

Object to Chapter 4, Policy SP8

The plan provides excess housing to the detriment of open countryside. Sites, including SP2, have been added belatedly and should be removed as they are not needed. There is no policy basis for increasing the buffer to 7% from the previously accepted 3%.

Object to Chapter 4, Policy SP2

Flawed evidence is used to identify sustainable villages, which results in isolated villages with little infrastructure being seen as suitable for significant development. Moreover, Whitwell is accessed by very narrow country lanes requiring passing places.

Object to Chapter 13, Site Allocation SP2

There is no need for SP2 to meet housing need. The NHDC approach is not sound. It does not comply with NPPF as no consideration has been taken of flood risk and a sequential approach has not been followed in site selection. It was also added at a late stage with an allocation of greater than 5ha - this conflicts with NHDC evidence that large housing extensions to Whitwell could have an unacceptable visual impact on cross country views.

Object to Chapter 13, Site Allocation SP2

The site has a known and identified high risk of surface water flooding as recognised in the Council's Strategic Flood Risk Assessment. As the NPPF states that development should be steered to areas with the lowest chance of flooding, site SP2 should only be considered if there is an identified need that cannot be met elsewhere.

Object to Chapter 13, Site Allocation SP2

The proposed development is not in a sustainable location and will depend on private transport for most travel; this in a village which is already badly congested.

NPPF Requirement to empower local people to shape their surroundings (Paragraph 150)

Our local community is ignored in the Local Plan. NHDC is wholly aware of local feeling towards potential development of this site. The site is not needed to meet the identified housing need, yet NHDC Planners remain determined to use this site notwithstanding local objections, environmental and flooding concerns, together with the visual impact on the intrinsic beauty of the countryside. Thames Water state lack of sewerage capacity. The Planners, inexplicably, even ignore their own Planning Committee who recently rejected the site for development.


Object to the allocation of SP2 for housing

The Local Plan Preferred Option allocated the site for Green Belt, which was fully supported by the Parish Council. No justification for the site no longer being categorised as Green Belt is provided by NHDC. Latest figures (reduction in OAN) show that SP2 is not needed for housing. The Local Plan pragmatically adds in late sites. The submission has not given the Parish Council or Whitwell villagers the opportunity to be empowered and has ignored their wishes for SP2 to remain Green Belt.

It is for the reasons above that we consider SP2 should be removed from the 2011 - 2031 Local Plan.

My wife and I would like to make the following objections to the Local Plan:-

Object to Chapter 4, Policy SP8

The plan provides excess housing to the detriment of open countryside. Sites, including SP2, have been added belatedly and should be removed as they are not needed. There is no policy basis for increasing the buffer to 7% from the previously accepted 3%.

Object to Chapter 4, Policy SP2

Flawed evidence is used to identify sustainable villages, which results in isolated villages with little infrastructure being seen as suitable for significant development. Moreover, Whitwell is accessed by very narrow country lanes requiring passing places.

Object to Chapter 13, Site Allocation SP2

There is no need for SP2 to meet housing need. The NHDC approach is not sound. It does not comply with NPPF as no consideration has been taken of flood risk and a sequential approach has not been followed in site selection. It was also added at a late stage with an allocation of greater than 5ha - this conflicts with NHDC evidence that large housing extensions to Whitwell could have an unacceptable visual impact on cross country views.

Object to Chapter 13, Site Allocation SP2

The site has a known and identified high risk of surface water flooding as recognised in the Council's Strategic Flood Risk Assessment. As the NPPF states that development should be steered to areas with the lowest chance of flooding, site SP2 should only be considered if there is an identified need that cannot be met elsewhere.

Object to Chapter 13, Site Allocation SP2

The proposed development is not in a sustainable location and will depend on private transport for most travel; this in a village which is already badly congested.

NPPF Requirement to empower local people to shape their surroundings (Paragraph 150)

Our local community is ignored in the Local Plan. NHDC is wholly aware of local feeling towards potential development of this site. The site is not needed to meet the identified housing need, yet NHDC Planners remain determined to use this site notwithstanding local objections, environmental and flooding concerns, together with the visual impact on the intrinsic beauty of the countryside. Thames Water state lack of sewerage capacity. The Planners, inexplicably, even ignore their own Planning Committee who recently rejected the site for development.


Object to the allocation of SP2 for housing

The Local Plan Preferred Option allocated the site for Green Belt, which was fully supported by the Parish Council. No justification for the site no longer being categorised as Green Belt is provided by NHDC. Latest figures (reduction in OAN) show that SP2 is not needed for housing. The Local Plan pragmatically adds in late sites. The submission has not given the Parish Council or Whitwell villagers the opportunity to be empowered and has ignored their wishes for SP2 to remain Green Belt.

It is for the reasons above that we consider SP2 should be removed from the 2011 - 2031 Local Plan.