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Representation ID: 5341

Received: 19/12/2022

Respondent: St Philips

Agent: Pegasus Group

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

This policy refers to proposed developments causing ’unacceptable impact’ on existing health care facilities but fails to define what level of impact is deemed unacceptable or how that is to be measured. The policy should also acknowledge that not all residents of a
development will be new to a catchment area and may indeed already be registered by the local health care provider, thereby not creating a net additional burden.
Careful analysis is therefore required with regard to the capacity of existing infrastructure to accommodate new patients, before reaching a conclusion as to what any CIL Regulation 122 compliant financial request might be. The requirement for CIL Reg compliance of any request should be clearly specified within policy.
The policy is considered unsound, as it is neither justified nor consistent with national policy for the reasons set out above.