Response from Ms Joanna Greenway (Individual)
1. Ms Joanna Greenway (Individual) : 20 Dec 2017 09:10:00
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I have read the guidance notes.
Policy Reference
DM6 - Flood Risk Management and Sustainable Drainage Systems
1.3 Do you consider the DM DPD to be sound?
No
1.4 If NO, please indicate the ground(s) on which you consider the DPD to be unsound.
The DPD is not justified
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 find the final version of the Dev. Man. DPD unsound, specifically because you omitted to inform anyone in the DDMP Main Changes document that you had completely removed the chart detailing the document requirements for drainage plans for each stage of the planning application process.
I responded for my council ( Grange Town Council) to the current consultation by looking at the Main Changes detailed and commenting on them. It didn’t occur to me that you might have removed something and not mentioned it in the Main Changes list. I was only informed today by a very concerned resident. My council has been denied the right to comment on this change because it was not notified to them.
This particular omission does not seem to result as a consequence of responses from Cumbria County Council (who have the same chart in their planning policies), as they have not referred to it in the current online responses, apart from suggesting a slightly different preamble to it.
The justification for removing it is not clear and not based on informed consultee responses, as presumably no-one else either knew you were omitting it.
This chart was very welcome to Grange Town Council as it brought transparency and clarity to an area of concern for many residents; drainage is a major issue on and near all our allocated sites and it has been a constant to and froing between the CCC Lead Local Flood Team and the SLDC development management team to understand the developer requirements. Do we now assume that CCC and Dev. Man are not using the same drainage checklist? Why is is not available to local residents through the Dev. Man processes? It is more appropriate and much easier to have drainage conversations with SLDC Dev. Man than try to engage with CCC.
We would welcome a way of rectifying the soundness .
Cllr. Joanna Greenway
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