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Representation ID: 1054

Received: 08/02/2022

Respondent: Staffordshire County Council

- P49: HC4: consideration of 2 storey units and aspirational design should be considered to encourage older persons to move.
- P49: HC5: policy leans towards older persons accommodation and doesn’t address wider population needs (disabilities across all ages)
- P27: HC9 - 2018 Design Guide should be updated to reflect cycling requirements (LTN1/20)
- P27 & P48/9: HC13 & HC19 - may require Green Infrastructure SPD and Health and Wellbeing SPD to give further detail on addressing physical inactivity/obesity, providing opportunities for local food growing/allotments and to give detailed guidance on specific design interventions to benefit health.
- P27/28: EC1 – Policy needs to make mention to public transport access to employment land. HGV parking should be included as an example of necessary infrastructure in Policy EC1.
- P28/29: EC9 – Suggest Staffordshire Freight Strategy 2019 is referred to in key evidence and that options for provision of facilities for HGV parking considered and identified in the next Local Plan iteration.
- P29: EC11 – policy needs to identified Staffordshire’s Bus Service Improvement Plan, Brinsford Parkway SOBC and Integrated Transport Strategy in key evidence
- P54: NB5 – should clarify if whole District is suitable for on-shore wind subject to criteira. Should give further detail on what constitutes very special circumstances for Green Belt projects.
- P53: NB7 – support policy and reference to SuDS Handbook, which should be carried into final policy.
- P54: Additional policy is required to ensure development is catered for by gigabit-capable connectivity