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New searchThe cursory analysis in Table 1 of the pros and cons of the potential locations for growth does not provide a sufficient basis for choosing a preferred option. First, the analysis as it stands is inconsistent. One example is the con comment for the Red option, “New settlement based growth”, that “There could be an adverse impact on local landscapes, loss of agricultural land and countryside”. This exact comment could equally apply to the Grey, Orange, Pink and Yellow options. More fundamentally however is the need to subject all location strategies to an analysis of how they could achieve the objectives of new policies along the lines of those we propose in answer to Question 1, namely; • Include new policies to ensure that the totality of new allocated development, when fully completed, would be sustainable in terms of natural resources, in particular water supply and treatment of waste and surface water, would maintain, and if possible improve, the level of natural capital, and would maintain, and if possible improve, the agricultural and food production assets of the borough. • Include policies to ensure that new allocated development is at least neutral, and if possible negative, in terms of its contribution to climate change. • Include policies to ensure that new allocated development is built to explicit standards that mitigate the potential impacts of future climate change.
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1. We broadly welcome the aspirations of the Draft Vision for the future of the borough, (with one major omission which we deal with below) but the Vision has no practical significance if it is not explicitly connected to the policies to be developed in the revised Local Plan. This could be put right by expanding the heading as follows; By the end of the plan period, and by the application of the new policies developed within it: The borough will have become etc. etc.. 2. The omission which concerns us is the future health of the Great Ouse and the health of the entire water courses and groundwater system within the borough. Increasing water demand, pollution from waste and surface water run off and the increasing effect of weather extremes pose serious threats to the health of the Great Ouse and its tributaries and to agriculture, natural ecosystems and the built environment through extremes of high and low flows and the reliability of groundwater levels. If the Vision is to be credible as a comprehensive view of the borough then it must include explicit reference to the natural water system linked to plan policies designed to protect it from the impacts of new allocated development.
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We do NOT agree with the proposed scope of the Local Plan Review. It lacks any commitment to develop policies designed to ensure that the new development allocated will be sustainable in terms of natural resources, natural capital, agriculture and food production and climate change. To address our concerns, we would want to see the scope of the revision revised along the following lines; Retain the first bullet point, • Develop a strategy and allocate new development sites to accommodate growth in line with national policy requirements Add bullet points as follows, • Include new policies to ensure that the totality of new allocated development, when fully completed, would be sustainable in terms of natural resources, in particular water supply and treatment of waste and surface water, would maintain, and if possible improve, the level of natural capital, and would maintain, and if possible improve, the agricultural and food production assets of the borough. • Include policies to ensure that new allocated development is at least neutral, and if possible negative, in terms of its contribution to climate change. • Include policies to ensure that new allocated development is built to explicit standards that mitigate the potential impacts of future climate change. Omit bullet point 4, • Consider the need for additional policies to address climate change
1. We broadly welcome the aspirations of the Draft Vision for the future of the borough, (with one major omission which we deal with below) but the Vision has no practical significance if it is not explicitly connected to the policies to be developed in the revised Local Plan. This could be put right by expanding the heading as follows; By the end of the plan period, and by the application of the new policies developed within it: The borough will have become etc. etc.. 2. The omission which concerns us is the future health of the Great Ouse and the health of the entire water courses and groundwater system within the borough. Increasing water demand, pollution from waste and surface water run off and the increasing effect of weather extremes pose serious threats to the health of the Great Ouse and its tributaries and to agriculture, natural ecosystems and the built environment through extremes of high and low flows and the reliability of groundwater levels. If the Vision is to be credible as a comprehensive view of the borough then it must include explicit reference to the natural water system linked to plan policies designed to protect it from the impacts of new allocated development.
The cursory analysis in Table 1 of the pros and cons of the potential locations for growth does not provide a sufficient basis for choosing a preferred option. First, the analysis as it stands is inconsistent. One example is the con comment for the Red option, “New settlement based growth”, that “There could be an adverse impact on local landscapes, loss of agricultural land and countryside”. This exact comment could equally apply to the Grey, Orange, Pink and Yellow options. More fundamentally however is the need to subject all location strategies to an analysis of how they could achieve the objectives of new policies along the lines of those we propose in answer to Question 1, namely; • Include new policies to ensure that the totality of new allocated development, when fully completed, would be sustainable in terms of natural resources, in particular water supply and treatment of waste and surface water, would maintain, and if possible improve, the level of natural capital, and would maintain, and if possible improve, the agricultural and food production assets of the borough. • Include policies to ensure that new allocated development is at least neutral, and if possible negative, in terms of its contribution to climate change. • Include policies to ensure that new allocated development is built to explicit standards that mitigate the potential impacts of future climate change.
We cannot comment on priorities for infrastructure as they will depend on the final location strategy. However, we are concerned that the infrastructure necessary to provide sustainably for the water demand of additional development, and for the sustainable management of waste and surface water, has not been included in previous Local Plans. This issue becomes increasingly important with every increment in proposed growth in the borough and with the need to take into account the increasing climate change impacts on rainfall patterns in this already water stressed region.
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The analysis needed to formulate the proposed new policies on climate change, (See Q1) namely – • Include policies to ensure that new allocated development is at least neutral, and if possible negative, in terms of its contribution to climate change. • Include policies to ensure that new allocated development is built to explicit standards that mitigate the potential impacts of future climate change. will necessarily involve identifying the construction techniques and standards that developers will have to apply in planning applications. Any further guidance need only be to provide detail to the policy requirements.
