H1.b Land North of Pennine

Object

Representation ID: 5015

Received: 02/01/2024

Respondent: Mrs Sara Glover

Development of this site, along with the Officer's Mess and proposals for up to 500 houses for St George's barracks is totally disproportionate to the size of the existing village and the current infrastructure in place. This would fulfil RCC's housing needs for 5 1/2 years alone!

Object

Representation ID: 5267

Received: 24/12/2023

Respondent: Gary Gregg

Despite there being no further need for additional allocations with a 10% housing buffer allowance, the draft Plan allows for an extra 27% of housing need in the form of reserve sites and 25% of those numbers are allocated to Edith Weston village. The H1.b reserve site has been recently considered unsuitable for housing development. As noted, it “is flanked on both sides by residential development that is included within the Planned Limits of Development, however those parcels are historic developments associated with the military base to the south of the site … lies outside the Planned Limits of Development of the settlement in an area defined as countryside, where policies seek to limit development to that which has an essential need to be so located” (Officers report 8 Aug 2022 2022/0903/MAO).

Object

Representation ID: 5324

Received: 04/01/2024

Respondent: Les Allen

This is greenfield land outside the PLD. For these reasons and, although only on the reserve list, it should be rejected. The extra houses proposed for Edith Weston, on top of the proposals for Officers' Mess and the future development opportunity for SGB, will more than satisfy the whole of Rutland's needs over the local plan period. Why would any County Council plan to dump all its future development in one rural location, which will be expensive to resource for infrastructure and at a scenic location with specially protected wildlife? This should be withdrawn from the call for sites.

Support

Representation ID: 5563

Received: 05/01/2024

Respondent: Francis Jackson Homes Ltd

We support the allocation of the site for housing;
It is well related to existing development on 3 sides have very limited wider visual, landscape and countryside impact;
No access constraints;
Under Option and so is immediately available for housing - the site is available, deliverable and achievable;
The site can come forward much sooner than the Officers Mess site (H1.4), and is better well related to existing development;
A previous application confirmed no technical issues at all but suggested the site come forward through the call for sites and new local plan process - as it now is.

Object

Representation ID: 5582

Received: 05/01/2024

Respondent: Marian Markham

Rutland County Council must stop facilitating via Local Plan the default easy options of building on Greenfield land. These are food production fields, provide biodiversity, carbon sinks as soil which can hold organic matter and also water to help retard flooding. How does allocation of a Greenfield site for building on square with the rest of the Local Plan policies on carbon sinks, flooding etc?

Object

Representation ID: 5623

Received: 05/01/2024

Respondent: Julie Gray

This is greenfield land outside the PLD. For these reasons and, although only on the reserve list, it should be rejected.

Object

Representation ID: 6076

Received: 07/01/2024

Respondent: Mr Andrew Lunn

This land is greenfield and outside of the PLD. the numbers exceed the housing assessment number of 21 and is not required. This site would go againist many of the other policies within the proposed local plan, environment, transport, countryside protection etc..

Object

Representation ID: 7491

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Mr James Preston

If one takes all the allocations, commitment and recent completions, Edith Weston, with allocations (H1.4), reserve site (H1.b) and SGB (SS5), could see the built-up village population rise from 582 (ONS 2021) to some 2,250, at the adopted household size of 2.89, representing an increase of over 360%. . On its own, these allocations in one village represents 5 years of the entire County’s housing need (with 10% buffer). The spatial distribution strategy appears to be incorrectly based on parish populations rather than the ONS built-up settlement populations. Hence, Edith Weston’s built up area population, including the peripheral military estates, is 582 rather than the parish population, including Normanton, of 1,100 (2021).

Object

Representation ID: 7757

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO)

Agent: Montagu Evans LLP

The approach to reserved sites, wholly on greenfield land, appears to be at odds with the Council’s preference for sustainable development and the use of previously developed land.

This is particularly relevant considering Reserve Site H1.b – Land North of Pennine Drive, Edith Weston, which has been identified for approximately 84 dwellings.

This site is located to the immediate north of the St George’s Barracks main site. The DIO believe that development of this land as a greenfield reserve site would be contrary to national policy and the strategic objectives of the draft Local Plan. This is particularly relevant given the context of a large brownfield site to the immediate south, which is known to be available during the plan period. As set out in the DIO representations in relation to draft policy SS5, the reserve site allocation for Site H1.b – and indeed a number of the Reserve Sites – could reasonably be accommodated at St George’s Barracks. In our view this would result in a more sustainable approach to development, rather than the piecemeal approach currently advocated by Policy H1.

Object

Representation ID: 7793

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Edith Weston Parish Council

This site (ED106) is similar in all key respects to site ED109, as identified in the Site Allocations Assessment Appendix C Larger Villages, October 2023. There is clear inconsistency in finding site ED106 (H1.b) as suitable for development.

In addition, Edith Weston is meeting housing needs and part of the wider strategic need already, so there is no need or justification for inclusion of this site.

The Local Plan identifies a proposed target spatial distribution of 514 homes across the 10 Larger Villages. Edith Weston is already more than meeting its share of this figure.