Response from Dr Wendy Thompson (Individual)
1. Dr Wendy Thompson (Individual) : 19 Nov 2017 21:49:00
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1.1 Do you consider the AONB DPD to be legally compliant?
Yes
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.
If you wish to support the legal compliance or soundness of the DPD or its compliance with the Duty to Cooperate, please also use this box to set out your comments.
I support the soundness of the AONB DPD because it reflects well the statutory purpose of the AONB in giving great weight to conserving landscape and natural beauty. In particular I support:
- the reasons for preparing the DPD set out in paragraph 1.25
- the interpretation of the NPPF in paragraph 1.3.6
- the objectives in paragraph 2.2.1
- Policy AS01 Development Strategy - this is an AONB but set in a wider area which is Carnforth and its rural hinterland. Needs for the whole area need to take into account those parts of the area which have been designated as of special interest such as AONBs.
- Paragraphs 3.1.3 and 3.1.4 Meeting the needs for the area as a whole must be the right answer - as you intimated in your response to my submission during one of the earlier consultation phases. Therefore, I agree most strongly that it is not necessary for the AONB DPD to identify a specific housing requirement within the AONB.
- Policy AS12 on Water Quality, Sewerage and Sustainable Drainage, especially in relation to the need for evidence in areas not connected to mains drainage (but consider that this could contain a stronger presumption against development in such areas and not merely a statement of process as drafted). Even if developers were to argue that treatment facilities with soak aways might be able to provide a solution, it should be noted that the fields between Whinney Fold and Lindeth Road are waterlogged for much of the year. The landowners who are attempting to sell this land to developers is well aware of this as his workers refuse to drive farm vehicles onto the fields other than in the summer months. Attempting to provide a soak away in ground which is waterlogged would be a disaster for residents in any new properties and for the biodiversity in the AONB and out into Morecambe Bay to which the ground water eventually runs.
- Policy AS16 in excluding any sites from Silverdale, not because of any objection in principle but because no sites were found to be appropriate in the light of the statutory purposes, especially supporting the exclusion of land at Whinney Fold on the basis that a combination of factors related to landscape impact, drainage, biodiversity (including impact on the Morecambe Bay designated site).
2.1 If your representation is seeking a modification, do you wish to participate at the oral part of the Examination?
No, I do not wish to participate at the oral examination
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