Question 16 re. the future objectives for Battle
Comment
Core Strategy Issues & Options
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
Core Strategy Issues & Options
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
Core Strategy Issues & Options
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
Core Strategy Issues & Options
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
Core Strategy Issues & Options
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
Core Strategy Issues & Options
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
Core Strategy Issues & Options
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
Core Strategy Issues & Options
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.