Object

Representation ID: 5301

Received: 22/12/2022

Respondent: Miller Homes

Agent: Pegasus Group

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Policy is not effective or consistent with national policy as currently drafted and should be amended as suggested.

Miller do raise issues with the following criteria:

Criteria a – this criteria and wider policy largely relies on detail within latest South Staffordshire Design Guide SPD and relevant national and local design guides etc.; however these documents cannot be given full weight as they have not been subject to examination and are not part of the Local Plan. As such any detail from these documents which is intended to guide the determination of applications for planning permission should be set clearly within this Local Plan policy, to ensure that it is effective in line with the NPPF test.

Criteria c – tree lined streets – this should be refined to reflect footnote 50 of the NPPF which states streets should be tree-lined: ‘unless, in specific cases, there are clear, justifiable and compelling reasons why this would be inappropriate’, and to note that such an approach is subject to highway authority agreement.

Criteria l – simply duplicates policy HC1 and is therefore unnecessary and could be removed.