Question 3

Object

Representation ID: 1016

Received: 10/12/2021

Respondent: Persimmon Homes West Midlands

Agent: Pegasus Group

Local Plan lacks clarity on whether a Green Belt review is required under Strategic Objective 1. No comments regarding the vision.

Support

Representation ID: 1020

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Acres Land & Planning

The vision is sufficiently broad to be acceptable to everyone.

Support

Representation ID: 1047

Received: 08/02/2022

Respondent: Staffordshire County Council

-P1: Vision for the plan makes no reference to climate change adaptation and mitigation
-P2: Table 4 should reflect support for new rail-based parkway at Brinsford

Support

Representation ID: 1056

Received: 08/02/2022

Respondent: Cannock Chase AONB

Welcome the specific mention of the AONB in section 3.49. Strategic Objective 11 should clarify the AONB is distinct from Cannock Chase SAC.

Object

Representation ID: 1063

Received: 09/12/2021

Respondent: St Philips

Agent: Pegasus Group

Vision is not locally relevant, contains no spatially specific elements and seeks to protect and enhance the district as it currently exists.

Support

Representation ID: 1064

Received: 09/12/2021

Respondent: St Philips

Agent: Pegasus Group

Strategic Objectives are broadly supported.

Object

Representation ID: 1084

Received: 04/02/2022

Respondent: Environment Agency

Afford blue-green corridors high level of protection. Consider need for extra watercourse capacity to address climate change.
Amend Issues and challenges to include reference to enhancing and re-naturalising the water environment.
Development should give space for water via protection and naturalisation of blue/green corridor.
Reword strategic objection 11 to include after net gain - 'and wider holistic environmental improvements'.
Reword strategic objection 12 insert after effects of climate change - 'ensuring new developments are well designed and opportunities for improving sustainability.'

Object

Representation ID: 1088

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Lilactame Ltd

Agent: Pegasus Group

RE Strategic Objective 7: W'ton Airport being an existing large employer within a rural area provides a clear opportunity to meet with these objectives which the preferred option has failed to grasp

Object

Representation ID: 1116

Received: 11/02/2022

Respondent: Lower Penn Parish Council

Strategic objective 1 – Compensatory Green Belt will not ameliorate loss and there are not exceptional circumstances to release it
Strategic objective 2 – 4,000 houses for the Black Country and urban extensions should be removed and reviewed following the adoption of the Black Country Plan.
Strategic objectives 3-5 – should only relate to housing needs in South Staffordshire, not the Black Country
Strategic objective 12 – is wholly inadequate, this objective should be much higher up in the plan. As well as mitigation of sites, the overall approach to development location should reduce climate change emissions and accepting large numbers of housing from the Black Country undermines this goal. South Staffordshire has committed to a climate emergency but has not addressed these issues in its planning framework.

Support

Representation ID: 1139

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd

Agent: Evolve Planning & Design

The vision is clear but doesn’t appear locally relevant or spatially specific. The strategic objectives are succinct, locally relevant and relate to the most important areas of change or protection within the District. The draft and emerging policies will assist in delivering these objectives.

Support

Representation ID: 1148

Received: 12/12/2021

Respondent: Lovell Homes

Agent: Evolve Planning & Design

The vision is clear but doesn’t appear locally relevant or spatially specific. The strategic objectives are succinct, locally relevant and relate to the most important areas of change or protection within the District. The draft and emerging policies will assist in delivering these objectives.

Support

Representation ID: 1164

Received: 12/12/2021

Respondent: Keon Homes

Agent: Evolve Planning & Design

The vision is clear but doesn’t appear locally relevant or spatially specific. The strategic objectives are succinct, locally relevant and relate to the most important areas of change or protection within the District. The draft and emerging policies will assist in delivering these objectives.

Support

Representation ID: 1200

Received: 10/12/2021

Respondent: Mr - Cox & Jenks

Agent: PlanIt

Reference to South Staffordshire seeking to strive to protect and enhance its distinctive rural character, communities and landscape; and to create beautiful thriving new places where people can live, work and play is supported. Recognition that Codsall/Bilbrook are locations which are suitable to make a significant contribution towards the District’s housing needs. These two settlements have an excellent range of local services including two rail stations. They are eminently suitable for accommodating additional proportionate development in accordance with the recommendations in the GBHMA Strategic Growth Study for proportionate dispersal of development at locations which are centred around these settlements. Strategic Objective 6 - Developing an Economic Strategy, is supported. The Plan should seek to retain existing employment and foster sustainable economic growth, encouraging inward investment and job creation.
However, Vision should be amended to introduce additional text to confirm that South Staffordshire will deliver sufficient land, of the right type, to meet the economic and housing growth requirements of South Staffordshire and which will support the growth of the conurbation.

Object

Representation ID: 1201

Received: 10/12/2021

Respondent: Mr - Cox & Jenks

Agent: PlanIt

Vision should be amended - the economic objective of sustainable development requires a sufficient quantum of the right type of land to be available to support economic growth. The social objective requires local authorities to ensure that a sufficient number and range of homes are provided to meet the needs of current and future generations. Propose additional text to confirm that South Staffordshire will deliver sufficient land, of the right type, to meet the economic and housing growth requirements of South Staffordshire and which will support the growth of the conurbation.
Strategic Objective 1, and the Plan as a whole,
fail to have any regard to the requirement of the NPPF para 140.
Strategic Objectives 3, 4 and 5 do not contain reference to providing a sufficient quantum of housing to support the growing number of households in the district to provide enough homes to accommodate South Staffordshire’s working population, or to supporting the growth requirements of the conurbation. Additional Strategic Objective should be added to reflect this.

Support

Representation ID: 1209

Received: 15/02/2022

Respondent: Historic England

Table 2: welcome the inclusion of heritage as a strength within the 'built assets'. Note natural landscapes are historic landscapes.
Table 5: Welcome the reference to heritage within this section.

Object

Representation ID: 1210

Received: 15/02/2022

Respondent: Historic England

Table 2: Include opportunities for the historic environment within this section such as reducing heritage at risk, increasing heritage tourism and access to heritage.
Pg23: Suggest inclusion of a reference within the vision for the historic environment.
Table 6 Objective 13: Heritage also relates to historic landscapes. Current objective focuses only on the 'built' element, suggest should include a broader definition.

Object

Representation ID: 1221

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Barberry

Agent: RCA Regeneration Ltd

Strategic Objective 1: Concerned at the lack of clarity of how this objective will be delivered; unlikely that most developers will have control over other land parcels. Do not consider this objective deliverable.

Strategic Objective 2: It is unclear how this contribution is disaggregated across the HMA. Details of agreements made under the Duty to Co-operate should be included in the evidence base.

Strategic Objective 9: Strategy relies on new rail stations but rail is not mentioned in the objective – suggest this is mentioned. The importance placed upon rail does not reflect some of the sites selected (e.g. Linthouse Lane).

Support

Representation ID: 1233

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Cameron Homes Ltd

Agent: Evolve Planning & Design

The vision is clear but doesn’t appear locally relevant or spatially specific. The strategic objectives are succinct, locally relevant and relate to the most important areas of change or protection within the District. The draft and emerging policies will assist in delivering these objectives.

Support

Representation ID: 1259

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Bloor Homes

Agent: Evolve Planning & Design

The vision is clear but doesn’t appear locally relevant or spatially specific. The strategic objectives are succinct, locally relevant and relate to the most important areas of change or protection within the District. The draft and emerging policies will assist in delivering these objectives.

Object

Representation ID: 1276

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: CCB Investments

Agent: RCA Regeneration

- Strategic Objective 1: Concerned at the lack of clarity of how this objective will be delivered; unlikely that most developers will have control over other land parcels. Do not consider this objective deliverable.
- Strategic Objective 2: It is unclear how this contribution is disaggregated across the HMA. Details of agreements made under the Duty to Co-operate should be included in the evidence base.
- Strategic Objective 9: Strategy relies on new rail stations but rail is not mentioned in the objective – suggest this is mentioned. The importance placed upon rail does not reflect some of the sites selected.

Object

Representation ID: 1286

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Goldfinch TPS view the proposed planning policies covering the Green Belt (Policy DS1) and Open Countryside (Policy DS2) are developed through out of date data and insufficient technical evidence.

Object

Representation ID: 1310

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: J Holt & Sons

Agent: Spawforths

There is a need to update the Vision and Objectives
to provide a longer term vision (up to 30 years) for the South Staffordshire area, having regard to the provisions of Policy DS4.

Object

Representation ID: 1314

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Richborough Estates

Agent: RCA Regeneration Limited

Strategic Objective 2: It is unclear how this contribution is disaggregated across the HMA. Details of agreements made under the Duty to Co-operate should be included in the evidence base.

Object

Representation ID: 1321

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Mr - Lacon

Agent: Mr William Dale

The absence of any additional land allocated for development in Perton does not correspond to the strategic objectives identified to date.
It is encouraged that a review of the proposed housing target of 8,881 dwellings is undertaken to ensure it is
sufficient to meet the needs of both South Staffordshire and the unmet needs of the GBHMA. Further development allocation at Perton is needed to meet the wider and local housing need.

Object

Representation ID: 1326

Received: 09/12/2021

Respondent: St Philips

Agent: RCA Regeneration Ltd

- Strategic Objective 1: Concerned at the lack of clarity of how this objective will be delivered; unlikely that most developers will have control over other land parcels. Do not consider this objective deliverable.
- Strategic Objective 2: It is unclear how this contribution is disaggregated across the HMA. Details of agreements made under the Duty to Co-operate should be included in the evidence base.
- Strategic Objective 9: Strategy relies on new rail stations but rail is not mentioned in the objective – suggest this is amended. The importance placed upon rail does not reflect some of the sites selected.

Object

Representation ID: 1335

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Taylor Reed Homes

Agent: RCA Regeneration Ltd

- Strategic Objective 1: Concerned at the lack of clarity of how this objective will be delivered; unlikely that most developers will have control over other land parcels. Do not consider this objective deliverable.
- Strategic Objective 2: It is unclear how this contribution is disaggregated across the HMA. Details of agreements made under the Duty to Co-operate should be included in the evidence base.
- Strategic Objective 9: Strategy relies on new rail stations but rail is not mentioned in the objective – suggest this is amended. The importance placed upon rail does not reflect some of the sites selected.

Object

Representation ID: 1343

Received: 09/12/2021

Respondent: Seven Homes

Agent: RCA Regeneration

- Strategic Objective 1: Concerned at the lack of clarity of how this objective will be delivered; unlikely that most developers will have control over other land parcels. Do not consider this objective deliverable.
- Strategic Objective 2: It is unclear how this contribution is disaggregated across the HMA. Details of agreements made under the Duty to Co-operate should be included in the evidence base.
- Strategic Objective 9: Strategy relies on new rail stations but rail is not mentioned in the objective – suggest this is amended. The importance placed upon rail does not reflect some of the sites selected.

Support

Representation ID: 1355

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Jay Farm Homes and Lawnswood Homes

Agent: SLR Consulting Ltd

3a - YES – The correct vision and strategic objectives have been identified but our client does not believe this is
accurately reflected within the proposed site allocations contained within the Preferred Options consultation
documents.

Object

Representation ID: 1356

Received: 13/12/2021

Respondent: Jay Farm Homes and Lawnswood Homes

Agent: SLR Consulting Ltd

NO – insufficient sites have been identified along the western edge of Wolverhampton and Dudley to achieve
the identified Strategic Objectives. Furthermore, in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework, the Council should be seeking to safeguard further sites to meet potential development needs now and beyond the
current plan period.

Support

Representation ID: 1366

Received: 20/12/2021

Respondent: Richborough Estates

Agent: Pegasus Group

The vision is succinct but not locally relevant and has no spatially specific elements. It seeks to ‘protect and enhance’ the District rather than considering how growth could be accommodated. The strategic objectives are supported, particularly objective 2. Draft policies will assist in delivering these objectives.