1. Objecting to Development

2. Agenda The Planning Application What makes an objection count?
How to tailor your letter
Information to help you

3. Agenda The Planning Application What makes an objection count?
How to tailor your letter
Information to help you

8. What you don’t want! Agenda
The Planning Application
What makes an objection count?
How to tailor your letter
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9. Planning Policy
Problem is, the JCS is incomplete, neighbourhood plans and parish plans have only just started so we can only hand our hats on the NPPF

10. National Planning Policy Framework Ministerial Forward
“The purpose of planning is to help achieve sustainable development.”
Sustainable means ensuring that better lives for ourselves don’t mean worse lives for future generations.
Development means growth.

11. The NPPF says
where the development plan is absent, silent or relevant policies are out‑of‑date, granting permission unless:
any adverse impacts of doing so would significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits, when assessed against the policies in this Framework taken as a whole
specific policies in this Framework indicate development should be restricted.

12. The NPPF has 3 themes an economic role a social role
contributing to building a strong, responsive and competitive economy by ensuring that sufficient land of the right type is available in the right places and at the right time to support growth and innovation and by identifying and coordinating development requirements, including the provision of infrastructure;
a social role
supporting strong, vibrant and healthy communities, by providing the supply of housing required to meet the needs of present and future generations; and by creating a high quality built environment, with accessible local services that reflect the community’s needs and support its health, social and cultural well-being
an environmental role
contributing to protecting and enhancing our natural, built and historic environment; and, as part of this, helping to improve biodiversity, use natural resources prudently, minimise waste and pollution, and mitigate and adapt to climate change including moving to a low carbon economy.

13. The NPPF states12 principles of good planning
Be genuinely plan-led
Not simply be about scrutiny
Proactively drive and support sustainable economic development
Always secure high quality design and a good standard of amenity
Take account of the different roles and character of different areas,
Support the transition to a low carbon future in a changing climate,
Contribute to conserving and enhancing the natural environment
Encourage the effective use of brownfield land
Promote mixed use developments
Conserve heritage assets in a manner appropriate to their significance
Manage growth to make the fullest possible use of public transport, walking and cycling,
Improve health, social and cultural wellbeing and community facilities for local needs.

14. Your Opinion
In the next slides are some extracts from the NPPF. If you believe the Charles Church proposal complies with the requirements of good design, you don’t need to object.
You need to object if;
If you think the proposal is at odds to the requirements for good design
If you think Charles Church’s view of our village and its needs are wrong or misleading
If you want something different for Alderton
If there is an issue that is not addressed by their proposal
The next slides show extracts from the NPPF

15. 4. Requiring good design para 58
will function well and add to the overall quality of the area, not just for the short term but over the lifetime of the development
establish a strong sense of place, using streetscapes and buildings to create attractive and comfortable places to live, work and visit
respond to local character and history, and reflect the identity of local surroundings and materials, while not preventing or discouraging appropriate innovation
are visually attractive as a result of good architecture and appropriate landscaping

16. 5. Roles and character of different areas
Great weight should be given to conserving landscape and scenic beauty in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which have the highest status of protection in relation to landscape and scenic beauty. Para 115
JCS Vision, and Strategic Objectives
Conserve and improve the natural environment
areas of high landscape value are [to be] avoided
Consideration of the impact of development on the setting of a protected landscape has been accepted as a material consideration.
Cotswolds Conservation Board “it is suggested that [such] allocation would result in this JCS objective failing to be met”

17. 6.Meeting the challenge of climate change para 93.
Planning plays a key role in helping shape places to secure radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, minimising vulnerability and providing resilience to the impacts of climate change, and supporting the delivery of renewable and low carbon energy and associated infrastructure.
plan for new development in locations and ways which reduce greenhouse gas emissions

18. 7. Conserving and enhancing the natural environment para 109.
Protecting and enhancing valued landscapes, geological conservation interests and soils
Recognising the wider benefits of ecosystem services
Minimising impacts on biodiversity and providing net gains in biodiversity
Preventing unacceptable levels of soil, air, water or noise pollution

19. 11. Use of public transport, walking and cycling para 35.
Therefore, developments should be located and designed where practical to
Accommodate the efficient delivery of goods and supplies;
Give priority to pedestrian and cycle movements,
Have access to high quality public transport facilities;
Create safe layouts which minimise conflicts between traffic and cyclists or pedestrians

20. Joint Core Strategy Proportionality 60 in first year!!!!!
Number of houses for Rural Area
2,880
Number of years 20
Houses per year
144
Houses for Alderton per year 2
Houses proposed by Charles Church
60 in first year!!!!!
Proportionality

21. Agenda The Planning Application What makes an objection count?
How to tailor your letter
Information to help you

22. Tailoring your letter Refer to the NPPF or JCS (if you can!) Major on
Design
Sustainability
Personalise it to your
Experience
Knowledge
Circumstances
Example:
Transport
Your method of transport
How far do you go
How often
Your problems

23. Tailoring your letter Official deadline 15th March 2013 Write to
Mr. J. Hinett,
Planning Officer,
Tewkesbury Borough Council, Council Offices, Gloucester Road,
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire,
GL20 5TT
Official deadline 15th March 2013
But opinions accepted up to hearing date in April

24. Agenda The Planning Application What makes an objection count?
How to tailor your letter
Information to help you

25. Information to Help Ypu
Charles Church Application
Reference 13/00114/FUL Land at Beckford Rd
If you Google the reference and follow the links you’ll be able to see all the documents submitted by the developer.
Have fun spotting the 40 or so errors!!!!