Object

Representation ID: 19499

Received: 24/02/2009

Respondent: Southern Water

None of the preferred strategies in the Strategy Direction document appears to deal with amenity protection. Consideration of amenity is important in relation to development proposals adjacent to sewage treatment works. The preferred strategy should be extended to incorporate this need.

" This can be achieved by designating an appropriate buffer zone around the treatment works within which development sensitive to odour is excluded.

We therefore propose that the preferred strategy for Design Quality and the Built Environment should make reference to protecting the amenity of new development. An additional criterion in Box 29 would satisfy our objection, as shown below
(ix)Protect the amenity of the development