Tysoe Neighbourhood Development Plan Pre-Submission Neighbourhood Plan Regulation 14 Consultation (Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations, 2012 Comments from Stratford-on-Avon District Council Policy related comments: Section Reference/page Comment Contents Page p.2 It would be helpful to list all the individual policies under their section headings, including policy title and page number in the NDP. Foreword p.4 Replace ‘councils’ with ‘communities’ and add ‘them’ after ‘affecting’ and delete ‘their communities’ in the first paragraph. Additionally, replace ‘core strategies’ with ‘policies’; capital ‘D’ and ‘C’ for District Council and add ‘through the Core Strategy’ to the end of the second sentence. Foreword p.4 Second paragraph – there is no housing target to be met by individual settlements. 1.1 Progressing the Plan p.4 Insert ‘Neighbourhood’ before ‘Plan’ on second line of the first paragraph. Also replace ‘parish’ with Neighbourhood Plan’ and add ‘and comprises the whole of the Parish’ to the sentence on the third line. paragraph – capital ‘P’ and ‘C’ for ‘parish councils’. Insert ‘exercise’ between sites’ and ‘and’ on second line of fourth paragraph. Section 2 p.6 – First paragraph, replace ‘involves dispersing’ with ‘included the dispersal of some’. Second paragraph – 84 homes is not a target for the settlement it is more an indicative guide. Third paragraph – Replace third sentence with: ‘If this Plan does not identify reserve sites, the District Council may identify sites through the Site Allocations Plan (SAP)’. Fourth paragraph – there is no housing target to be met it is more an indicative guide. Fifth paragraph – replace ‘parish’ with ‘community’. Bullet point 4, delete ‘(for example…going elsewhere’. Bullet point 6 – replace ‘contain’ with ‘influence’. Sixth paragraph – insert ‘and Core Strategy’ after ‘Framework’ on the final line on p.6. Additionally, delete ‘rather than…decision makers’ as it is unnecessary. Eighth paragraph (p.7) – insert ‘as well as’ between ‘place’ and managing’ on third line. Insert line space between this paragraph and the following one.
approval”. This is incorrect in 2 ways: the application was refused, not approved; the Parish Council objected, it did not support. What is different now? Explanation – Second paragraph – there is not a target for the village set out in the Core Strategy. Policy H3 – Strategic Reserve: Policy H3: identification of this strategic reserve site needs to be rigorous in order to stand up to scrutiny at Examination, i.e. sites need to be suitable, available and achievable - and preferable to other sites that have been put forward. There are constraints of developing Herberts Farm bearing in mind it is partially in a Conservation Area and has listed buildings on site. The text from the 3rd sentence to the end would appear more applicable to Policy H2 and perhaps should be repositioned there? Is this still a working farm? If so, is it the farm mentioned on p.9 of the NDP where it indicates that it is at the heart of the village? The re-development of this site would presumably lead to the closure and loss of the farm, which would no longer form ‘the heart of the village’… If it is a functioning farm, what are the reasons for promoting it for such alternative development? How does this re-development stack up against landscape protection policies and employment/business protection policies? Replace ‘their’ with ‘its’ on fourth line of policy. The sentence beginning ‘The sites in this category…’ is a note and should not form part of the policy itself. Additionally, it is a single site, not multiple sites. Second paragraph should begin: ‘Development on this allocated site…’. Criterion c) should read: ‘Safe access and egress from the local highway network, plus adequate parking arrangements; and’. Policy H4 – Rural Exception Housing: Would a more appropriate policy title be: ‘Affordable Housing’? The first paragraph should be replaced, to read: ‘Small-scale community-led housing schemes on sites beyond, but adjacent to, the defined built-up area boundary of the village will be supported where the following is demonstrated:…’. In criterion b) replace ‘…Tysoe’s Local Service Village…’ with ‘…the built-up area boundary…’. Second paragraph – what is ‘an open book development appraisal’? Explanation (p.24) – in paragraph beginning ‘Analysis of the 2011…’ on the second line, replace ‘District Council’ with ‘the wider District’.
Policy H5 – Market Housing Mix: Replace ‘will’ with ‘should’ in line of the policy as the original term is too restrictive. The second sentence, beginning ‘In this way…’ is Explanation, not policy and should be removed from the policy text. The %’s are not listed as a range as in the Core Strategy and as such will be almost impossible to achieve if the development is an odd number. Explanation – The first paragraph is duplication of the penultimate paragraph on p.24 (which is part of explanatory text for Policy H4). Paragraph 4 of the explanation indicates that the NDP ‘will be at odds with the District Council’s Core Strategy’. I assume this relates specifically to the 4+ bed market housing? Local evidence will be essential if the PC consider the policy is not in conformity with other Development Plan policies. Section 7 – Employment p.26 to 27 Policy E1 – Protecting and Enhancing Local Employment Opportunities: The word ‘not’ should be deleted from 2nd line? ‘Resisted’ in the paragraph of the policy should read ‘supported’? Criterion b) delete the word ‘where’. Replace text in criterion d) with ‘development of the site for other appropriate uses will remove existing unacceptable environmental problems associated with the current use’. Explanation: Insert ‘area’ between ‘neighbourhood’ and ‘is’ in the first line. Policy E2 – Home Working: In relation to live-work units, it would seem appropriate to state that the location of new build units should be in accordance with Policies H1 and H2. The policy has two parts, but the policy title only covers one part – suggest new title reads ‘Home Working and Live-Work Units’. Delete ‘in accordance with Policy ECON3’ from first paragraph – there is no policy ECON 3 in this NDP… Explanation: Final paragraph – what is meant by the phrase ‘although this should not create a license for additional rooms to be built by developers’? This requires re-drafting or further explanation. Live-work units c) layout and design ensures that residential and work uses can operate without conflict – need to clarify if this relates to internal arrangements or the wider neighbouring amenity