Preferred Options November 2021

Support

Representation ID: 369

Received: 05/12/2021

Respondent: Inland Waterways Association (IWA)

IWA agrees that the Hatherton Canal Restoration Project could contribute to tourism and flood alleviation.

IWA agrees with Strategic Objective 13: Enhance the built environment, conserving and enhancing district’s heritage assets including the district’s canal network.

Object

Representation ID: 370

Received: 05/12/2021

Respondent: Inland Waterways Association (IWA)

IWA does not support the northern part (646a) of the Policy SA2 housing site allocation at Cross Green.

Object

Representation ID: 371

Received: 05/12/2021

Respondent: Inland Waterways Association (IWA)

The Locality 1 map shows the Shropshire Union Canal but not the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal which passes through Penkridge and is more relevant.

The Locality 2 map shows the Shropshire Union Canal but not the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal which is affected by the Cross Green housing allocation.

Object

Representation ID: 372

Received: 05/12/2021

Respondent: Inland Waterways Association (IWA)

IWA does not support the long term growth aspirations for a new settlement.
The area of search shown in Appendix F is misguided and too close to the existing settlements of Stafford, Penkridge or the northern edge of the connurbation (to be extended further north at Cross Green) to form a viable stand-alone new settlement.
Any new settlement should as a matter of principle be beyond the West Midlands Green Belt. However, the scope for this in South Staffordshire is very limited.

Object

Representation ID: 373

Received: 05/12/2021

Respondent: Inland Waterways Association (IWA)

IWA objects to the northern part (646a) of Policy SA2 housing site allocation at Cross Green. Unlike the southern part which has a preferred new road option link, the northern part is accessed only by inadequate minor roads and lanes. Part of it is shown as extending to the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal which is a Conservation Area and at the very least this part should be removed from the allocation.

Support

Representation ID: 374

Received: 05/12/2021

Respondent: Inland Waterways Association (IWA)

The Penkridge, Cherry Brook residential allocation (site 005) is supported only if the development is required to be set back from the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal Conservation Area, with canalside housing limited to 2 storeys and facing the canal across a landscaped buffer zone.

Object

Representation ID: 375

Received: 05/12/2021

Respondent: Inland Waterways Association (IWA)

IWA does not support allocation GT08 Brinsford Bridge. The existing site has had a damaging impact on the environment and setting of the adjacent Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal and its Conservation Area. Extension of the site should not be permitted, unless it includes the provision of major landscape screening from the canal and a long term requirement to maintain its effectiveness.

Object

Representation ID: 376

Received: 05/12/2021

Respondent: Inland Waterways Association (IWA)

IWA was and remains opposed to the West Midlands Interchange which will have damaging impacts on the environment and users of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal and the setting of its Conservation Area. However, IWA recognises that now the plans have been approved by Government, SSDC has little option but to remove the development zones from the Green Belt, but we support retaining in the Green Belt the land specified for Green Infrastructure provision adjacent to the Canal Conservation Area and the country park to the south of Vicarage Road.

Support

Representation ID: 377

Received: 05/12/2021

Respondent: Inland Waterways Association (IWA)

Policy HC8 on Gypsy and traveller pitches should include a requirement to protect heritage assets.

Policy NB10 Canal Network is supported, but should distinguish between development by canals and canal related development e.g. marinas, which cannot realistically be limited to existing settlements.
NB10 supports restoration of the Hatherton Canal, but to be effective the Plan should retain the route protection policy and detailed plans of the route.
Para. 6.33 says canal conservation areas run for large distances through the District. In fact they cover the whole of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal and the Shropshire Union Canal within the District.