Object

Representation ID: 14351

Received: 14/12/2020

Respondent: Rosconn Strategic Land

Agent: DS Planning

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Coalescence and potential coalescence with both Dickens Heath and Majors Green and the resulting gaps between settlements have been a major concern since the late introduction of this site as a potential allocation and the deletion of Site 13 in the Draft Local Plan Supplementary Consultation document 2019.

Master planning, quite reasonably, has been used in endeavouring to overcome these concerns, together with carefully worded text to promote the site, a luxury which was seemingly not afforded Site13 and which master planning could have overcome issues raised by the Council. Rosconn submitted a master plan which did just that. A copy of the master plan is attached as Appendix 1.

Site BL3 is no further away from Dickens Heath than the parts of site 13 and Site 340 which are intended to be built development.
Whitlocks End Farm (BL3) lies within the highly performing Green Belt parcel, whereas former allocation Site 13 lies within the moderately performing Green Belt in the Council’s Green Belt Assessment document.