Regulation 18 draft Local Plan

Support

Representation ID: 7886

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Ryhall Parish Council

CC9 Protecting Renewable Energy Infrastructure - Support

Support noted.

Object

Representation ID: 7887

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Ryhall Parish Council

Concerns with regard to battery life, waste and recycling. Presently not been properly addressed.

Support noted. Details of disposal/recycling of the batteries would be required under Policy CC1 and CC8. Given the value of such storage systems, there is likely to be a strong financial incentive for developers of commercial scale solar/wind farms to sell on materials for reuse and recycling.

Object

Representation ID: 7888

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Ryhall Parish Council

The land at Quarry Farm is a Natural Carbon Sink in direct contravention of this policy

Support noted. Quarry Farm is an allocated site so meets exception criteria a) of Policy CC11.

Object

Representation ID: 7891

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Ryhall Parish Council

Reference Quarry Farm which is in direct contravention of this policy.

Support noted. Quarry Farm is an allocated site but Policy CC12 would still be applied to the development proposed.

Object

Representation ID: 7892

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Ryhall Parish Council

Would also recommend that mobility scooters are also provided for (given the age demographic)

Comments noted. Charging facilities for mobility scooters are not compatible with EV charging points and would not normally be parked within a car parking space. Facilities for charging of mobility scooters in specialist older persons’ housing would be controlled through the Building Regulations.

Object

Representation ID: 7893

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Ryhall Parish Council

RCC should now recognise that existing model for flood defence is now obsolete and need to consider more rigorous survey work. What was considered as one in a hundred-year events are now more like one in every 3 years as climate change takes hold.

Clogged ditches and gullies in Ryhall’s Back Lane and Belmesthorpe Lane/Shepherd’s Walk have been the cause of significant localized flooding and RCC needs to invest in preventative clearing these to ensure they function as required. Liaison with Anglia Water on a long-term issue in Foundry Road is illustrative of poor attention to this important preventative issue.

Comments noted. The impact of climate change on flood risk is recognised and set out in Policy CC14 and the accompanying text (as changed). Problems of local drainage issues fall outside the scope of the Local Plan and are a matter for the council as Highway/Lead Local Flood Authority.

Object

Representation ID: 7894

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Ryhall Parish Council

SS1 Spatial Strategy for New Development. Ryhall’s comments with regard to proposed PLD

a) RHY1 - To be on Property Boundary
b) RYH2 - Please confirm why this small parcel has been placed within the PLD?
c) RYH3 - Request to be inside the PLD
d) RYH4 - Request to be inside the PLD
e) RYH5 - Request to be outside the PLD
f) RYH6 - Request to be outside the PLD
g) RYH7 - Includes row of Garages? Are these freehold to the local Properties? Land “split” into two areas, garages and spiny to be outside PLD
h) RYH8 - Request to be inside the PLD
i) Also Request Trout Hatchery & Land between Gwash Close and Gwash Meadows to be inside the PLD (see attached)

We offer a general comment on PLD issues … that is not having a PLD for Smaller Villages may have the unintended consequence of encouraging individual development of large ‘prestige’ detached properties which can change the identity of that community. We recommend all smaller villages should have a defined Planned Limit of Development.

a) Ryh1 shown on the map within the supporting evidence document (PLD Review Study 2023) includes the rear (northern) gardens considered on balance to be within the curtilage of properties to the north of the A6121. This provides consistency with the approach taken in all settlements with a PLD, in accordance with the criteria of the methodology established by the PLD Review Study 2023.
b) Ryh2 is considered to be garden land within the curtilage of the property Old Quarry Lodge, and thus included within the PLD in accordance with the criteria of the methodology established by the PLD Review Study 2023.
c) Ryh3: housing at St. Eabba’s Close is included within the PLD.
d) Ryh4: the property at the corner of Essendine Road (A6121) and Crown Street / Back Lane is included within the PLD.
e) Agree to change: Ryh5 is incorrectly drawn, as only a very small part of this area should be included within the PLD as garden curtilage to one property on Foundary Road.
f) Ryh6 is Ryhall Cemetery, removed from the previous PLD around Ryhall as located outside the main built framework of the village. This provides consistency with the approach taken in all settlements with a PLD, in accordance with the criteria of the methodology established by the PLD Review Study 2023.
g) Ryh7: the row of garages and established tree belt on the eastern side of the A6121 have been removed from the previous PLD around Ryhall as located outside the main built framework of the village. This provides consistency with the approach taken in all settlements with a PLD, in accordance with the criteria of the methodology established by the PLD Review Study 2023. Protection to the tree belt is proposed as an Important Frontage under policy EN8.
h) Ryh8 includes the rear (northern) garden land considered to be within the curtilage of No. 15 Lea View, and thus included within the PLD in accordance with the criteria of the methodology established by the PLD Review Study 2023.
i) Criteria for adjustment to the PLD include accommodation of allocated residential sites under the draft plan. The site referred to as land between Gwash Close and Gwash Meadows is identified as H1.7 Land South West of Belmesthorpe Lane, Ryhall, and therefore the PLD revised to accommodate this.
Land at the trout hatchery is also included within the PLD.

Support

Representation ID: 7899

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Ryhall Parish Council

SS3 Development within Planned Limits of Developments - Support

Support noted

Object

Representation ID: 7900

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Ryhall Parish Council

Smaller restraint villages without the protection of PLD will only embolden developers. PLD should remain.

Comments noted. No change to the general approach to remove PLDs from small villages, however policy SS4 (now SS3) is to be amended to provide greater clarity to be added to the policy criteria.

Support

Representation ID: 7901

Received: 08/01/2024

Respondent: Ryhall Parish Council

This is a brownfield site and presents the most sustainable site for Rutland as completely in line with NPPF Planning Policy for large housing development. It is noted that we are not presented with such a comprehensive site masterplan for Quarry Farm.

We note the John Associates report, re the calcareous grassland, and would support proper development and protection of these areas as SSSI’s. The same protections should apply as per our Biodiversity action plan to all of these rare habitats.

This policy should be robust in order that developers are in no doubt about our environmental priorities.

Support noted. The potential for protecting the calcareous grassland at SGB is currently being considered by the nature conservation bodies.