Yes

Draft Local Plan Review

Representation ID: 1606

Received: 17/02/2017

Respondent: Hockley Heath Parish Council

Representation Summary:

The final paragraph of P1A remains a potential for benefit to the surrounding communities, and HHPC would urge SMBC to ensure that facilities within the BVP development contribute to the needs of surrounding communities in addition to the needs of the BVP development itself.

Full text:

Policy P1A Blythe Valley Business Park, has failed to translate into planning policy and will require review given the result of recent planning approvals. HHPC would have expected the views expressed within P1A to have translated into planning policy in spite of the draft status of the Local Plan (given this is clearly SMBC's direction in the area of BVP). The sentence indicating that development should proceed "...within the context of a masterplan to demonstrate how integration would be achieved between existing and planned facilities and with the network of villages that lie nearby..." has been ignored by the developers of the site. In addition the recent zero CIL rating (as opposed to a lower figure, albeit > 0) will significantly reduce the potential for the development to be "...provided in a way that benefits the wider area including nearby communities...". The final paragraph of P1A remains a potential for benefit to the surrounding communities, and HHPC would urge SMBC to ensure that facilities within the BVP development contribute to the needs of surrounding communities in addition to the needs of the BVP development itself.