Publication Plan April 2024

Object

Representation ID: 6923

Received: 31/05/2024

Respondent: Cannock Land Ltd

Agent: Croft Development Consultancy

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Land at Longford House, Cannock
Part of the site sites within the administrative boundary of Cannock and is currently used for car auctions. It is allocated in Cannock Chase’s Local Plan as a strategic housing allocation and removed from the Green Belt. A sliver of land in South Staffordshire is also used for car auction purposes and a separate representation has been made to bring this out of the Green Belt to facilitate a comprehensive development of the site.
The wider part of the site in South Staffs comprises open grassland and is used primarily for car boot sales. It makes sense to remove this land from within the Green Belt, given that strategically it can meet a wider housing need for Cannock Chase and the Black Country. The same rationale should be applied for its removal from the Green Belt as Cannock used.
Para 147 of the NPPF quoted. The Council should give more weight to the strategic allocation within Cannock’s emerging plan and the development of this land in conjunction with the residential allocation will create a more sustainable pattern of development.

Object

Representation ID: 6924

Received: 31/05/2024

Respondent: Cannock Land Ltd

Agent: Croft Development Consultancy

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Wellington Drive, Cannock
The site is accessed off Wellington Drive, in the administrative boundary of Cannock Chase District Council and forms part of a car auction facility. It is undisputable that the land has been in operation for many years and therefore is previously developed land. The administrative boundary between SSDC and CCDC runs through the site and bisects the building. The site has been identified by CCDC as a strategic residential allocation (plans attached to representation). This representation relates specifically to the part of the site used for car auction purposes (see Plan 1) that lies adjacent to the strategic housing site in Cannock’s emerging plan.
As the land is PDL, the same rationale should be applied for its removal from the Green Belt. Para 147 of the NPPF quoted. The Council should give more weight to the strategic allocation within Cannock’s emerging plan and the development of this land in conjunction with the residential allocation will create a more sustainable pattern of development. There has been a lack of dialogue with CCDC under the duty to co-operate and it is neither rational or logical to leave this small parcel of land in the Green Belt. The inclusion of this land within the wider site allocation contributes to the viability of the development.