Object

Representation ID: 5048

Received: 20/12/2022

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Strategic Objective 5
the new residential communities being proposed through major housing-led urban extensions within the open countryside will be heavily isolated from existing services and public open space provision, and given their isolated position, will be heavily car dependent. We have Council’s that the Council’s Sustainability Appraisal (SA) (the SA is not fit-for-purpose or sufficiently robust) process has failed to recognise these critically important sustainability issues. Both the Sustainability Appraisal (SA) and the policy itself within the Publication Stage Report is unsound.
The Council is also using an insufficiently robust Green Space Audit (Open Space Needs Assessment) to inform and support Local Plan preparation, that fails to meet the requirements of paragraph 98 of the Revised NPPF (2021).
Given that highly unsustainable new residential communities will be created, in isolated site locations, poorly served by publicly accessible green space resources, the Council’s Publication Stage Report (2022) will make the obesity epidemic far worse, will help increase cases of Types 1 and 2 Diabetes, coronary heart disease, lung disease due to increased levels of air pollution from thousands of additional cars placed onto the district’s already pressured road networks, etc. We have concerns that the Council’s proposed spatial planning policy approach will make health inequalities far worse across the district.