Support

Representation ID: 8050

Received: 23/10/2024

Respondent: Ms Ann Lewis

Oakham is not a thriving market town. The town centre is depressingly down at heel and needs major improvements in paving, lighting, the range of shops on offer. Forward planning is required rather than a backward-looking and short-sighted approach to all that exists at present.

Support

Representation ID: 8054

Received: 29/10/2024

Respondent: Abbey Developments Ltd

Agent: CMYK Planning Ltd

Strategic Objective 9 - This objective encourages the efficient use of land which is supported. Abbey Developments own plots of land at Harrier Close, Cottesmore, which are interspersed among existing residential development. The efficient use of this land would be to allow residential development on the unused parcels. The parcels are not allocated or designated as open space and are not covered by any other designations other than to be washed over by the open countryside designation. This is not making the most efficient use of these parcels of unused land.

Object

Representation ID: 8071

Received: 14/11/2024

Respondent: Mr C Udale and Grafton Spaces Ltd

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Whilst agreeing with the aspirations of Objective 2, it seems odd that the Council has not carried this forward to the way that development has bene allocated in the larger villages. It could be expected that the more sustainable villages - with better bus services, on strategic A roads, and with the greatest range and number of amenities would have been targeted for a greater level of development - as that would best follow the principles established by the Strategic Objective.

Support

Representation ID: 8094

Received: 26/11/2024

Respondent: Mr Graham Layne

Support

Object

Representation ID: 8102

Received: 27/11/2024

Respondent: Mr John Deag

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Local Plan fails to address the lack of post-16 A-Level school education in the south of Rutland, in spite of it having the excellent Casterton College. It impacts on the quality of life as children have to travel elsewhere. Relevant to Spatial Portrait (Chapter 2); Vison (Chapter 3, page 13); Policy E6 (Employment & skills, p133); Policy INF1 (Infrastructure & connectivity, p255 priorities ‘Sustainable lives’ and ‘A county for everyone’); Policy H2 (page 91) as there is also no secondary school A-level provision in Stamford. See also to the NPPF policy on the importance of "Accessible services".

Support

Representation ID: 8109

Received: 27/11/2024

Respondent: Mr Rob Cooke

Rutland has many protected roadside verges; these are important for biodiversity, and their generally unimproved grassland communities are an important carbon store. many of the verges are being eroded away through increased volumes of traffic eroding them. Measure should be considered to improve their physical protection, and well as improving their management. I suspect there is not a recent survey which addresses there condition.

Object

Representation ID: 8143

Received: 29/11/2024

Respondent: Vistry Group

Agent: Pegasus group

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

It is noted that Strategic Objective 3 Meeting housing needs is:

“Meeting Rutland’s identified current and future diverse housing needs, including the affordability and adaptability of housing, through the provision of well-designed, energy efficient and low/zero carbon new homes”.

For the reasons set out later in this in this representation, we consider that the spatial strategy provides insufficient housing land and so this spatial objective will not be achieved.

Support

Representation ID: 8146

Received: 29/11/2024

Respondent: Mr Ian Briggs

Strategic Objective 11: Minerals
Support
The policy is consistent with national policy (Chapter 17 nppf) and recognises the essential role that cement manufacture makes to supporting the infrastructure, buildings, energy and goods that the country needs.

Support

Representation ID: 8234

Received: 29/11/2024

Respondent: Hereward Homes Greetham Ltd

The Vision will not support the delivery of :
• changes that improve people's quality of life,
• a strong, competitive, and knowledge-based local economy
• a range of high-quality housing that meet the County's minimum housing need

Object

Representation ID: 8235

Received: 29/11/2024

Respondent: Hereward Homes Greetham Ltd

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Strategic Objective 2: Delivering sustainable development
• The level of growth (to meet the needs of Rutland discounting the Stamford Northern Extension) is too low; is not an appropriate level of growth; is not proportionate in scale and are not directed to locations that promote sustainability in local communities. In particular the majority of rural residents are poorly served by the proposed distribution of housing and will restrict people’s access to homes which are affordable and also to jobs.

Object

Representation ID: 8236

Received: 29/11/2024

Respondent: Hereward Homes Greetham Ltd

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Strategic Objective 3: Meeting housing needs
• The plan will not meeting Rutland's identified current and future diverse housing needs. Specifically, the allocation at Stamford will not meet Rutland’s wider needs. All indicators of housing need (the HMA, past build rates, the need to support the County’s step change in the economy, and the new proposed Standard Method housing requirement) suggest that the current Standard Method figure is considerably too low.

Object

Representation ID: 8237

Received: 29/11/2024

Respondent: Hereward Homes Greetham Ltd

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Strategic Objective 4: A prosperous and resilient local economy
• The Plan does not support business investment and jobs; in particular it ignores the needs of local companies wishing to provide jobs in rural areas.

Support

Representation ID: 8260

Received: 30/11/2024

Respondent: Mrs Joanne Read

Implementation of the vision and objectives requires accurate and genuine assessments of Public Transport and Active Mode Connections are vital to ensure fair and sensible decision making. Examples given where this has not been the case in Whissendine.

Object

Representation ID: 8327

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Bowbridge Land Ltd

Agent: Pegasus group

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Strategic Objective 3 Meeting housing needs:
we consider that the spatial strategy provides insufficient housing land and so this spatial objective will not be achieved.

Support

Representation ID: 8434

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: House Builders Federation

The HBF considers that as per the vision it is important that the Plan supports the delivery of a range of high-quality housing that meets that County’s minimum housing need and which meets the needs of all sections of the community.

Support

Representation ID: 8468

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: RWE Renewables UK

Agent: Stantec

RWE is strongly supportive of the proposed vision. Particularly the fact that addressing the impacts of climate change and the need to become carbon net zero are central to it.

Object

Representation ID: 8542

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: De Merke Estates

Agent: Stantec

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

de Merke Estates whole heartedly supports
the stated Local Plan Vision and Strategic Objectives. However, we do not consider that the present spatial strategy, the accompanying “evidence base” and the draft Local Plan itself – is necessarily best placed to deliver on its own vision and objectives. Having regard to the “tests of soundness”. We object that the stated Vision and Objectives will not be deliverable over the plan
period.

Support

Representation ID: 8600

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Anglian Water

Broadly support the strategic objective. Welcome the inclusion of Rutland Water as a key site for wildlife in the county.

Support

Representation ID: 8603

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Anglian Water

Support the 2041 Vision and specifically the local delivery of carbon net zero through the Local Plan. With regard to the list of infrastructure (bullet 7) we again note – as raised in our Regulation 18 response - that water and water recycling are not referenced. Given the
importance of Rutland Water and the potential for WRCs to support a spatial distribution of growth that complies with the sustainability hierarchy, AWS would welcome the inclusion of water supply and water recycling plus flood prevention in the Vision text.

Object

Representation ID: 8638

Received: 01/12/2024

Respondent: CPRE Rutland

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Tying the achievement of the vision to the end date
of the plan period is too specific and ignores the expectation that the plan will, in any case, be updated every five years

Support

Representation ID: 8693

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO)

Number of people: 2

Agent: Montagu Evans on behalf of Secretary of State for Defence

The DIO are supportive of the overarching vision for the Local Plan and recognise that development is required beyond the market towns to ensure villages and local communities remain vibrant. It also seeks to protect the rural character of the countryside when bringing forward development which can be achieved by building development on the least sensitive sites and by providing a landscape led approach to development. The DIO support the Council’s proposed strategic objectives.
We note that St George’s Barracks remains to be one of, if not the largest, brownfield sites which can deliver high quality residential led development and greater weight should be attributed to its ability to provide early delivery of housing.

Support

Representation ID: 8719

Received: 24/12/2024

Respondent: National Highways

National Highways agree in principle to the vision and objectives of the Regulation 19 Local Plan.