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Publication Plan April 2024
Policy SA5 - Employment Allocations
Representation ID: 5834
Received: 30/05/2024
Respondent: CBRE
We write on behalf of our client Land Project UK Limited LPUK to promote Land at Warstone Road, Essington within the South Staffordshire District Council (SSDC) area for allocation within the Draft Local Plan for flexible industrial and/or logistics use (Class E(g)(iii), Class B2 and B8) with ancillary office space (Class E(g)(i)).
This representation is made in relation to emerging Policy SA5 – Employment Allocations in the Draft Local Plan.
Please see attached covering letter and additional information documents for full representation.
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Publication Plan April 2024
Policy SA5 - Employment Allocations
Representation ID: 5919
Received: 31/05/2024
Respondent: CBRE
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Our representations focus on the soundness of the Local Plan. Please see our full representations, which are provided in our separate West Midlands Interchange representations document dated May 2024, for further detail. We object to the soundness of the Local Plan in relation to the four tests of soundness set out within the NPPF. The key element of our objection relates to the wash over of Allocation E33 (WMI) with Green Belt. Other matters relate to Development Management Policies EC1, EC2, NB6B and NB6C.
We proposed the following re-wording of the policies set out below (additional text in bold, removal of text strike through):
- Strategic Objective 6: to reflect logistics as one of SSDC’s key sectors: ‘Strategic Objective 6 sets out a strategy for economic development. The strategy seeks to retain existing employment and fosters sustainable economic growth, encouraging inward investment and job creation in key sectors such as advanced manufacturing and logistics and providing the skills to enable residents to access these jobs.’
- Policy SA5: The WMI employment site allocation (E33) is for a Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) and will be progressed in-line with the Development Consent Order (DCO) that was granted permission on 4 May 2020. As noted, the DCO was implemented in July 2023. WMI remains washed over by Green Belt.
- Policy EC1: There will be strong in principle support for employment development within the development boundaries of these sites that is in line with their allocation and/or substantive planning permission and that result in significant job creation.
- Policy EC2: ‘There will be strong in principle support for employment development within the development boundaries of these sites that is in line with their allocation and/or substantive planning permission and that result in significant job creation.
