Publication Plan April 2024

Support

Representation ID: 5837

Received: 29/05/2024

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Goldfinch Town Planning Services welcomes the removal of previously proposed major housing site allocation (for 350 units) at site 582 Langley Road, Lower Penn

Object

Representation ID: 5838

Received: 29/05/2024

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Too much Green Belt land still risks being lost to development within the South Staffordshire District.As a result, the proposed Publication Stage Report (April 2024) is failing the ‘Sustainability’ test of Soundness as set out in paragraph 35 (indent d) of the Revised NPPF (December 2023), given its continued failure to promote the most sustainable patterns of new housing development across the district.

Object

Representation ID: 5839

Received: 29/05/2024

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

We object to the continued poor quality of the evidence base being used by South Staffordshire District Council’s Planning Policy Team to support Local Plan preparation.

Object

Representation ID: 5840

Received: 29/05/2024

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Goldfinch Town Planning Services continues to maintain its view that South Staffordshire District Council’s Publication Stage Plan (April 2024) is not based on the most up-to-date and robust housing evidence, as it has failed to effectively respond to and shape into Local Plan-preparation the substantial shift in central government (London) housing policy. Which has now removed the need for "mandatory" (compulsory) housing targets (political announcement made December 2022). The Local Planning Authority is therefore taking forward an insufficiently robust and unsound Local Plan Review forward, in direct conflict with the tests of 'Soundness' for Local Plan preparation as reinforced within paragraph 35 (indents b – the plan is not based on proportionate evidence) and paragraph 35 (indent d – the plan’s continued failure to promote the most sustainable patterns of development) of the Revised NPPF (December 2023).

Object

Representation ID: 5843

Received: 29/05/2024

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Goldfinch Town Planning Services has concerns that highly onerous Climate Change Net Zero policies are being taken forward and being forced through into the emerging Local Plan Review, which will place a financially damaging burden on new housing development proposals coming forward

Object

Representation ID: 5845

Received: 29/05/2024

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

We have concerns how the Local Plan Review can help tackle South Staffordshire Districts worsening and out-of-control childhood and adult obesity crisis (protect public health), minimise air pollution

Object

Representation ID: 5846

Received: 29/05/2024

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

The emerging Local Plan Review is failing to respond effectively to guidance in paragraphs 16 (indent b – the plan in not deliverable) and 35 (indent c – the plan is not effective and deliverable) of the Revised NPPF (December 2023), given its substantial failure to provide ‘deliverable’ and ‘effective’ planning policy solutions on a wide range of policy matters. Including wildlife corridor protection, improving climate change resilience, biodiversity protection, economic recovery and new jobs growth, preventing further levels of economic retail decline within the districts various centres.

Object

Representation ID: 5847

Received: 29/05/2024

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

The Sustainability Appraisal (SA) process is not fit-for-purpose and sufficiently robust, and is clearly unsound and is not legally compliant. The SA therefore fails various tests of ‘Soundness’ for Local Plan preparation as reinforced within paragraph 35 (indents b, c and d) of the Revised NPPF (December 2023).

Object

Representation ID: 5848

Received: 29/05/2024

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

We have continued concerns that the Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) which is being used to heavily influence and provide the critically important supporting planning policy foundations to underpin Local Plan Review policy preparation, is still continuing to take forward highly questionable and undeliverable proposals and projects which have no realistic prospect or likelihood of ever being delivered.

Object

Representation ID: 5850

Received: 29/05/2024

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Failure to deliver promised new jobs growth: the economic regeneration benefits of the i54 have been hugely over-inflated and exaggerated. The thousands of new jobs being promised by this business park have simply never materialised.