Comments and Questions on:
General issues
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| Comment no.: | Q051 | Date: | 17/01/2014 12:47 |
| Comment by: | Session NDP-C001 | Post code: | NN9 6AR - Caldecott |
| Q. How does the NDP fit in with East Northamptonshire Council and Northamptonshire Council plans. A. There is no existing East Northamptonshire plan - it has run out. This is why it is vital for us to do one. If we don't, then there is nothing to stop developers pushing forward any site they can purchase. There is a Core Spatial Strategy for Northamptonshire from 2008 that we must comply with. However, this strategy doesn't "require" us to accept any housing. Our Parish is not defined as a "growth" Village. Recent proposals being discussed at a County level NDP-0036 have suggested that Caldecott and Chelston Rise should be designated as "open countryside" with a presumption against development. Chelveston would be defined as a "smaller Village" where only "limited growth" would be allowed. We would need strong evidence and support to change these designations. There is currently no evidence to support the idea of the Parish as a whole growing by the 60-70% which would happen if all the aspirational sites were included in the Neighbourhood Plan - it is likely that such a proposal would be ruled as "unsound" by an inspector as local amenities and services could not support it. |
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| Comment no.: | Q022 | Date: | 17/01/2014 12:47 |
| Comment by: | Session NDP-C001 | Post code: | NN9 6AR - Caldecott |
| Q. This process seems bottom up - if we were a business we would set a vision and objectives and then would work out what we needed to do to achieve this. Shouldn't we be generating a vision for Caldecott? A. (from Cllr Adrian Dale) The process needs to be iterative. Building a vision without an understanding of what land might realistically be available could lead to a plan which couldn't be achieved. We had an exhibition event last December to look at this history of the Village and to formulate the beginnings of a vision. Only 10% of residents participated. When we held a survey in January 2013 we had 44% participation. Results of this survey suggested that only limited expansion of the Village would be supported by residents (20% expansion over 20 years - the same level of development as the last 20 years). In the survey, a small number of sites were nominated by residents in "free text" i.e. without prompting. Two of the sites being discussed at the Caldecott session (NDP-S001 and NDP-S018) were suggested in this survey. We cannot "offer" development to this limited number of land owners - we need to give everyone the same opportunity to propose their land. This has lead to the 21 sites being discussed, far more than realistically could be accommodated. In Caldecott, the level of expansion suggested by the survey has already been achieved without the sites suggested in the survey and those proposed tonight. We now have to decide whether the initial vision needs to be expanded. This will involve a detailed examination of each site before standing back and looking at the big picture. |
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