Response from Prof. and Mrs Malcolm and Val Stevens (Individual)
1. Prof. and Mrs Malcolm and Val Stevens (Individual) : 7 Dec 2017 09:27:00
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1.3 Do you consider the AONB DPD to be sound?
Yes
1.5 Please give details of why you consider the DPD is not legally compliant or is unsound or fails to comply with the Duty to Cooperate. Please be as precise as possible.
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We believe that the AONB DPD is sound because it gives proper weight to the intrinsic purposes of the AONB, which are to conserve landscape and natural beauty, and to do this through protecting wild species of flora and fauna and their habitats, indeed enhancing these where possible.
We applaud the policy of supporting local distinctiveness, visual amenity, and tranquillity, with special allowance made for openness in the settlement pattern, integrating fields with housing areas - certainly this is a notable feature of Silverdale. We are also pleased that due note has been taken of the sewerage issues in Silverdale which has no mains drainage; it would seem to us that this is a powerful argument against further development in terms of housing. More housing inevitably means more sewage to be dealt with, and here requiring high levels of householder responsibility and management, in order to protect the environment and especially Morecambe Bay.
We think it enormously important that the DPD gains legal status as soon as possible, since there are those even now seeking approval for developments that would be entirely against the values espoused in the DPD.
Yours sincerely,
Professor Malcolm Stevens OBE FRS
Mrs Valerie Stevens
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