Object
Main Modifications to the Proposed Submission Core Strategy
Representation ID: 21560
Received: 27/09/2013
Respondent: Robertsbridge Enterprise Group
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Tthis proposal does not adequately protect the existing use of employment land particularly in villages such as Robertsbridge. This problem is exacerbated by the recent changes to changes of use legislation.
An industrial estate except in exceptional circumstances is not appropriate to a village, especially where villages have grown up with some industrial life in them.
So provision for commercial activity needs to be integrated into the grain of the villages.
Therefore there needs to be stronger protection in terms of a policy for retaining existing business use and the amendment to the policy EC2 does not achieve that.
We believe that this proposal does not adequately protect the existing use of employment land particularly in villages such as Robertsbridge. This problem is exacerbated by the recent changes to changes of use legislation.
An industrialestate except in exceptionalcircumstances is not appropriate to a village, especially where villages have grown up with some industrial life in them.
So provision for commercial activity needs to be integrated into the grain of the villages such as Robertsbridge.
Therefore there needs to be stronger protection in terms of a policy for retaining existing business use and the amendment to the policy EC2 does not achieve that.