Publication Plan April 2024

Object

Representation ID: 7201

Received: 28/05/2024

Respondent: South Stafford Action Group

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Site 036c
- Site has previously been rejected by the planning committee and is unpopular amongst residents and councillers
-Runs against policy documents surrounding sustainable green belt land
-. In the conclusions to Appendix 5 of the 2022 Policy and Physical Constraints
Document it is recommended three times that this site should not be taken forward into
the Local Plan as follows –
2.6 south of Stafford is not recommended to be taken forward to meet the GBHMA
housing shortfall.
2.7 south of Stafford was deemed unlikely to meet the unmet needs of the conurbation
and performed particularly badly in terms of deliverability and public transport access.
2.12 did not recommend that this site should be taken further forward.
- Described as 'much valued countryside' by Open Countryside
-Site is grade 2/3 farmland should not be developed on based on the councils own classification
-Stafford borough council opposed development in a representation in 2022
-Infrastructure issues brought up in 2022 are increasingly difficult today
-Council massively exceeding its allocated number of housing
-Only one GP practice in the area
-Road system already severly congested, cannot handle more traffic, especially on some single track lanes
-Site contributes to 'real parkland feel' and is prosporous farmland
-Site is a very diverse wildlife habitat
-No clear reasons or justifications have been given for why the site should be allocated for housing
-Proposal for 81 houses is not sustainable