Transcript Tailoring your letter

Objecting to Development
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The Planning Application
What makes an objection count?
How to tailor your letter
Information to help you
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The Planning Application
What makes an objection count?
How to tailor your letter
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What you don’t want!
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The Planning Application
What makes an objection count?
How to tailor your letter
Information to help you
Planning Policy
National Planning Policy Framework
Joint Core Strategy
Cheltenham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury
Neighbourhood Plan
Cluster of Parishes
Parish Plan
Alderton
Problem is, the
JCS is incomplete,
neighbourhood
plans and parish
plans have only
just started so we
can only hand our
hats on the NPPF
National Planning Policy Framework
Ministerial Forward
• “The purpose of planning is to help achieve
sustainable development.”
• Sustainable means ensuring that better lives for
ourselves don’t mean worse lives for future
generations.
• Development means growth.
The NPPF says
• where the development plan is absent, silent or
relevant policies are out-of-date, granting
permission unless:
– any adverse impacts of doing so would significantly and
demonstrably outweigh the benefits, when assessed
against the policies in this Framework taken as a whole
– specific policies in this Framework indicate development
should be restricted.
The NPPF has 3 themes
• an economic role
– contributing to building a strong, responsive and competitive economy by
ensuring that sufficient land of the right type is available in the right places
and at the right time to support growth and innovation and by identifying and
coordinating development requirements, including the provision of
infrastructure;
• a social role
– supporting strong, vibrant and healthy communities, by providing the supply
of housing required to meet the needs of present and future generations;
and by creating a high quality built environment, with accessible local
services that reflect the community’s needs and support its health,
social and cultural well-being
• an environmental role
– contributing to protecting and enhancing our natural, built and historic
environment; and, as part of this, helping to improve biodiversity, use
natural resources prudently, minimise waste and pollution, and mitigate and
adapt to climate change including moving to a low carbon economy.
The NPPF states12 principles of
good planning
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Be genuinely plan-led
Not simply be about scrutiny
Proactively drive and support sustainable economic development
Always secure high quality design and a good standard of amenity
Take account of the different roles and character of different areas,
Support the transition to a low carbon future in a changing climate,
Contribute to conserving and enhancing the natural environment
Encourage the effective use of brownfield land
Promote mixed use developments
Conserve heritage assets in a manner appropriate to their significance
Manage growth to make the fullest possible use of public transport,
walking and cycling,
12. Improve health, social and cultural wellbeing and community facilities for
local needs.
Your Opinion
• In the next slides are some extracts from the NPPF. If you
believe the Charles Church proposal complies with the
requirements of good design, you don’t need to object.
• You need to object if;
– If you think the proposal is at odds to the requirements for good
design
– If you think Charles Church’s view of our village and its needs are
wrong or misleading
– If you want something different for Alderton
– If there is an issue that is not addressed by their proposal
• The next slides show extracts from the NPPF
4. Requiring good design para 58
• will function well and add to the overall quality of the area, not just for
the short term but over the lifetime of the development
• establish a strong sense of place, using streetscapes and buildings to
create attractive and comfortable places to live, work and visit
• respond to local character and history, and reflect the identity of local
surroundings and materials, while not preventing or discouraging
appropriate innovation
• are visually attractive as a result of good architecture and appropriate
landscaping
5. Roles and character of different areas
• Great weight should be given to conserving landscape and scenic beauty
in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which have the highest status of
protection in relation to landscape and scenic beauty. Para 115
• JCS Vision, and Strategic Objectives
– Conserve and improve the natural environment
– areas of high landscape value are [to be] avoided
• Consideration of the impact of development on the setting of a protected
landscape has been accepted as a material consideration.
• Cotswolds Conservation Board “it is suggested that [such] allocation would
result in this JCS objective failing to be met”
6.Meeting the challenge of climate change para 93.
• Planning plays a key role in helping shape places to secure
radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, minimising
vulnerability and providing resilience to the impacts of
climate change, and supporting the delivery of renewable
and low carbon energy and associated infrastructure.
• plan for new development in locations and ways which
reduce greenhouse gas emissions
7. Conserving and enhancing the
natural environment para 109.
• Protecting and enhancing valued landscapes, geological
conservation interests and soils
• Recognising the wider benefits of ecosystem services
• Minimising impacts on biodiversity and providing net gains
in biodiversity
• Preventing unacceptable levels of soil, air, water or noise
pollution
11. Use of public transport, walking
and cycling para 35.
• Therefore, developments should be located and designed
where practical to
– Accommodate the efficient delivery of goods and supplies;
– Give priority to pedestrian and cycle movements,
– Have access to high quality public transport facilities;
– Create safe layouts which minimise conflicts between traffic and
cyclists or pedestrians
Joint Core Strategy
• Number of houses for Rural Area
• 2,880
• Number of years
• 20
• Houses per year
• 144
• Houses for Alderton per year
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• Houses proposed by Charles Church
• 60 in first year!!!!!
Proportionality
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The Planning Application
What makes an objection count?
How to tailor your letter
Information to help you
Tailoring your letter
• Refer to the NPPF or JCS (if you can!)
• Major on
– Design
– Sustainability
• Personalise it to your
– Experience
– Knowledge
– Circumstances
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• Transport
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Your method of transport
How far do you go
How often
Your problems
Tailoring your letter
• Write to
– Mr. J. Hinett,
– Planning Officer,
– Tewkesbury Borough Council, Council Offices, Gloucester
Road,
– Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire,
– GL20 5TT
• Official deadline 15th March 2013
– But opinions accepted up to hearing date in
April
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The Planning Application
What makes an objection count?
How to tailor your letter
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Information to Help Ypu
• Charles Church Application
– Reference 13/00114/FUL Land at Beckford Rd
– If you Google the reference and follow the links you’ll be able to see all the
documents submitted by the developer.
– Have fun spotting the 40 or so errors!!!!