Regulation 19 Rutland Local Plan

Object

Representation ID: 8595

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Anglian Water

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Suggest that the ‘Why is the Local Plan important?’ paragraph in Chapter 1 could be rephrased to focus on the positive ability of the Plan to direct development to the sustainable locations, rather than setting out the negative consequences of inappropriate development.

Support

Representation ID: 8598

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Anglian Water

Welcome the changes to the description of Stamford in the Regulation 19 draft. The change enables a positive and evidenced based approach to be taken such that if growth elsewhere in Rutland was found to be less sustainable due to a lack of viable public transport, for example,
then growth in the form of a sustainable urban extension, with its attendant infrastructure and service cost and carbon economies of scale may be the most sustainable long-term option delivering more of the Council’s vision for Rutland.

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.

Object

Representation ID: 8602

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Anglian Water

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Should include a policy to support Anglian Water Services in bringing forward applications for increased capacity or environmental improvements at the Water Recycling Centres, and to support water infrastructure development at Rutland Water as well as the recreational activities and related employment. The renewable energy challenges faced by Rutland should also underpin policy which would support AWS and partners in bringing forward proposals for wind and solar energy generation. Energy use and resilience to climate change means that AWS is now looking to secure on site and private wire renewable electricity supplies to support water and wastewater services for Rutland and other areas communities and businesses.

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.

Support

Representation ID: 8604

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Anglian Water

AWS submits this representation with the intention that it enables joint work with RCC prior to the Local Plan’s submission for Examination, supports agreed Modifications and so will avoid unresolved Issues being taken to Examination. We recognise at this stage of the Plan that some evidential gaps may only be possible to be resolved when a new Plan is progressed which considers the uplift in housing need proposed by Government in July 2024. That evidence base should include an Integrated Water Management Study, an updated SFRA using soon to be published EA modelling and Whole Life Carbon Assessment. AWS broadly supports the draft Plan
and considers its spatial approach is deliverable. The delivery of the environmental and economic
benefits of that proposed development could though be compromised if the Rutland Water policy
and possible local landscape designations are not reviewed and amended.

Object

Representation ID: 8605

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Anglian Water

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

that utilities infrastructure is not standard development therefore the policy and associated validation requirements which will be needed should be applied proportionally. All waste development is deemed to be major development and so we would ask that small kiosks, for example, which have low potential for renewables generation due to their small roof area, are excluded from the CC2 f)

Object

Representation ID: 8606

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Anglian Water

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Utilities infrastructure is not standard development therefore the policy and associated validation requirements which will be needed should be applied proportionally. All waste development is deemed to be major development and so we would ask that small kiosks, for example, which have low potential for renewables generation due to their small roof area, are excluded from the CC4 requirement on renewable energy generation

Support

Representation ID: 8607

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Anglian Water

Welcome the policy CC5 on Embodied Carbon.

Note that the supporting text of policy CC5 has been updated to include commentary on embodied (capital) carbon and we welcome the conclusion, supported by recent case law, that this local attribution and action is a matter for Local Plan policy in the absence of national
regulations and targets.

In addition to AWS’s inputs to the infrastructure delivery evidence, AWS is able to provide tCO2e figures for each of the allocations proposed should this information be requested by the Council, as offered in our Regulation 18 submission.

Object

Representation ID: 8608

Received: 02/12/2024

Respondent: Anglian Water

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Policy CC6 is updated to reflect the 100 litres PCC position which was also set out by government in the 2023 Environmental Improvement Plan.

This move to a higher standard is possible due to the previous Ministerial direction on going beyond national standards having been removed.

AWS supports the inclusion of non-residential water efficiency standards in the supporting text for CC6

AWS supports the Water Management bullet points in CC6.