3. Policy Background

Comment

Representation ID: 19033

Received: 24/07/2007

Respondent: Hastings Borough Council

More could be made of the importance of the development as it is the only development opportunity for employment and housing growth in the eastern end of the Sussex Coast Sub-region. Vital to the regeneration of Bexhill and Hastings.

Comment

Representation ID: 19041

Received: 30/07/2007

Respondent: Highways Agency

Paragraph 3.9 mentions the significance, and the long-term nature of the development at North Bexhill and lends itself to a comprehensive transport strategy from the outset. HA suggests that a joint transport strategy covering all of Bexhill and Hastings should be developed, with a view to identifying workable and deliverable measures to increase the proportion of travel by sustainable means and to manage down travel, particularly by car.

It notes that the A21 Baldslow Junction scheme is on target for a Ministerial decision in early 2008 and delivery by 2011.

Comment

Representation ID: 19043

Received: 30/07/2007

Respondent: SEERA

Advises that the SPD is in general conformity with RPG9 and also the emerging RSS.

Comment

Representation ID: 19051

Received: 26/07/2007

Respondent: ATLAS

According to PPS12 a defensible SPD needs to illustrate a strong evidence base including an iterative sustainability appraisal process (SA) and due consultation process. The document should make specific reference to the topic-based studies that underpin the development, in particular set out processes that have been undertaken to reach these conclusions. The SA identifies potential conflicts between objectives, and assesses the relative merits of a self-contained new community verses a new community that forms an extension of the urban (most sustainable option). Much more could be made of the options testing process in the SPD.

Comment

Representation ID: 19074

Received: 07/08/2007

Respondent: Heritage England

The reference made in paragraph 3.14 to Policy GD1 and, apart from the design matters, to impact upon the natural features and resources, it is preferable for the reference to be broader to include the historic environment.