Regulation 19 Rutland Local Plan

Object

Representation ID: 8667

Received: 30/11/2024

Respondent: Clipsham Parish Meeting

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The Plan does not include a management summary or a clear strategic vision for Rutland's future. Despite initial community feedback on the Regulation 18 version, there has been minimal consultation regarding changes leading to the Regulation 19 version. Many policies, including those on environmental issues, are presented with subjective caveats, leading to potential misinterpretations. Certain policies, particularly Policy SS3, contradict sustainable development principles and fail to address past planning failures. The Plan mentions the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) but lacks specific references and guidance on its application in Rutland.

Object

Representation ID: 8668

Received: 30/11/2024

Respondent: Clipsham Parish Meeting

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

We agree with the policy notes accompanying SS1 and SS3 which are reproduced in sections 2 (i) and 2 (ii) of our response above. Thus we see that it is proposed to remove planned limits of development surrounding the periphery of the smallest villages and hamlets because they are not sustainable locations for housing growth. This
seemingly contradictory measure will undoubtedly encourage housing development on the many small fields and paddocks around the periphery of Rutland’s smallest villages and will lead to a significant increase in development pressure in the
smallest villages which Development Control will have great difficulty in resisting.
With reference to the Background Paper: Spatial Strategy for new development August 2023, paragraphs 3.5 and 3.8 make it clear that development in the small villages is unsustainable. The section entitled Monitoring past performance in paragraph 5.13 refers to the Council’s Authority Monitoring Reports for the period 2006 to 2021. This report shows that nearly 27% of all dwelling completions were located as windfall completions in the small villages, against an expected provision
of 10%. It has to be concluded from this data that unsustainable development in the small villages has far exceeded planning intentions and that additional measures are necessary in future to achieve sustainable development. Removal of PLD’s from the small villages is hardly likely to reduce unsustainable development. Actually it is
most likely to increase unsustainable development.
It would seem to us that this policy to remove PLD’s from the smallest villages is unsoundly based in principle and requires modification.

Object

Representation ID: 8669

Received: 30/11/2024

Respondent: Clipsham Parish Meeting

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The conditions or “provisos” (a) to (g) in Policy SS3 will enable developers to make planning applications and perhaps also to successfully appeal against Local Planning Authority refusals given the vagueness and difficulty in determination of these largely subjective conditions.

Clipsham Parish Meeting object to this policy and to all references in the text to it

Object

Representation ID: 8670

Received: 30/11/2024

Respondent: Clipsham Parish Meeting

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

So far as we are aware there is no acknowledged need in Rutland for either one of these
sites to be developed, let alone both of them. There is no evidence in the Regulation 19 Plan
that the Planning Authority has carried out any work to justify and explain the need for
these developments in Rutland

Object

Representation ID: 8684

Received: 30/11/2024

Respondent: Clipsham Parish Meeting

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Table 3 of Policy H1: consider that relying upon the proposed development of Stamford North to provide for over one half of the total residual housing requirement in Rutland up to 2041, carries some risks. Also, there is nothing in the plan to limit the number of dwellings coming forward in the small villages/hamlets.

Object

Representation ID: 8685

Received: 30/11/2024

Respondent: Clipsham Parish Meeting

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

This policy is incapable of implementation because of its subjectivity and vagueness. It clearly presents a presumption in favour of development.

Object

Representation ID: 8686

Received: 30/11/2024

Respondent: Clipsham Parish Meeting

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

This policy means there is a presumption in favour of development on Local Wildlife Sites, UK priority habitats, locally important habitats and other landscape features

Object

Representation ID: 8687

Received: 30/11/2024

Respondent: Clipsham Parish Meeting

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

There is clearly a conflict between these two paragraphs. The use of the words “major development” in the first paragraph is clearly incorrect and misleading
because BNG requires virtually all new development to contribute towards the delivery of measurable net gains

Object

Representation ID: 8688

Received: 30/11/2024

Respondent: Clipsham Parish Meeting

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

What type of new development would be expected to protect and enhance irreplaceable habitats including ancient woodlands and ancient and veteran
trees? Please provide a justification for this statement. Proposals which avoid or prevent the loss or deterioration will be supported?

Object

Representation ID: 8689

Received: 30/11/2024

Respondent: Clipsham Parish Meeting

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

This policy provides a presumption in favour of development subject to the development not having an adverse impact upon a number of subjective and vaguely defined principles.