Question 16 re. the future objectives for Battle

Comment

Representation ID: 18514

Received: 30/11/2006

Respondent: HOWARD HUTTON & ASSOCIATES

Agent: HOWARD HUTTON & ASSOCIATES

Battle has some potential for additional further housing growth above recent trend rates.

It has a higher rail passenger 'footfall' than anywhere else in the District other than Bexhill (see page 14 Rother in Profile)

Development could help fund the provision of safer cycle routes and help bring forward the second primary school.

Comment

Representation ID: 18555

Received: 08/12/2006

Respondent: High Weald AONB Unit

Strongly support statement in para 14.23. while the town will probably require a degree of small scale incremental growth, the towns location within the AONB AND AS PART OF IT precludes it from being a suitable lcoation for large housing growth.
Object to 14.26 assumption that the town can sustain the existing plan for an allcoation of 200 houses which would consitute a major development in the AONB

Comment

Representation ID: 18585

Received: 29/01/2007

Respondent: Crowhurst Parish Council

Agreed - current objectives to be carried forward. We do not agree that Battle would benefit from a station at Upper Wilting as Crowhurst (which would not then be viable) is closer and already relieving pressure.

Comment

Representation ID: 18665

Received: 01/02/2007

Respondent: Croudace Strategic Ltd

Agent: Charles Planning Associates Limited

It is considered that Battle represents a constrained town where large development opportunities would have a significant impact upon the natural, built and historic environment. It is therefore considered that the current objectives set out in Policy BT1 of the Adopted Local Plan seeks to ensure that any new development does not adversely impact upon the characteristics of the village and that these objectives should be carried forward in the Core Strategy.

Comment

Representation ID: 18822

Received: 13/02/2007

Respondent: AmicusHorizon Ltd (Rother Homes)

Whichever option is chosen (ie medium growth or limited growth) and with Blackfriars as the only foreseeable large development within Battle, it is seen as essential that the Section 106 requirement for affordable housing at Blackfriars is maximised.

Comment

Representation ID: 18858

Received: 14/02/2007

Respondent: The National Trust

The National Trust supports the current objectives for Battle as set out in the Local Plan

Comment

Representation ID: 18917

Received: 16/02/2007

Respondent: Councillor David Vereker

Objectives should be kept as they are; the historic outline/profile of the town and the Abbey must be maintained and not hidden by development.

Comment

Representation ID: 18942

Received: 19/02/2007

Respondent: Rother Voluntary Action

Opportunities for ongoing development should resist the desire for nothing to change which will lead to stagnation.