Object

Representation ID: 14983

Received: 11/12/2020

Respondent: Mrs Jean Walters

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Part of Site BL1 (parcel south of Tythe Barn Lane) objected to on number of grounds:
Flooding and sequential test
- Part of site BL1 in Flood Zones 2 and 3
- Sports fields flood most years, and severely in 2012 and 2018, with neighbouring garden properties being flooded. Council not recorded green space flooding over years, only properties.
- Frequent flood at Birchy Leasowes/Dickens heath Road junction and along Tythe Barn Lane.
- LLFA investigated options to reduce flood risk in Dickens Heath after May 2018 severe flood event
- LLFA report stated proposed use on Site 4 was vulnerable to flooding (see 2018 report)
- Sequential test not been fully carried out in accordance with NPPF Para. 158 – otherwise Tidbury Green Golf Club site would not be excluded
- Additional modelling required
- Due to regular flooding on site, should be re-classed as Flood Zone 2
- Flooding not been accurately recorded as no properties on this land, should be FZ2, not FZ1.
- EA are proposing to make sites a Critical Drainage Area
- Large area of land would be required as a balancing lake.
- Would need extensive piling on Site BL1 due to land lying on deep boulder clay – evidence by adjacent residential road Birchy Close.
- Therefore cost of developing site may be unsustainable due to considerable amount of fill material required as site is liable to flooding during wet periods every year.
- Would conflict with NPPF Para. 178 on ground conditions.