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Main Modifications to the Proposed Submission Core Strategy

Representation ID: 21574

Received: 27/09/2013

Respondent: Rother and Hastings CPRE

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Whilst we broadly support the aim of this change, as with Mod 16.1, mixed use creeps in here without any restraint all. Mixed use development has to be a last resort after all alternatives have been explored. It would be helpful also to have a definition of what is meant by strategic since what was a proto definition in the previous version has been removed in this latest one.

If particularly a village is to be sustainable and to remain so, there needs always to be economic activity and that demands sites. Otherwise a village will no longer be sustainable.

Full text:

Whilst we broadly support the aim of this change, as with Mod 16.1, mixed use creeps in here without any restraint all. Mixed use development has to be a last resort after all alternatives have been explored. It would be helpful also to have a definition of what is meant by strategic since what was a proto definition in the previous version has been removed in this latest one.

If particularly a village is to be sustainable and to remain so, there needs always to be economic activity and that demands sites. Otherwise a village will atrophy and no longer be sustainable.