Box 29 - Preferred Strategy for Design Quality and Built Environment

Comment

Representation ID: 19133

Received: 26/01/2009

Respondent: Councillor David Vereker

Design Quality:- This is gobbledegook! What does high quality design mean. place making, quality of public realm, robust design solutions etc! This is one person's perception versus another's and will become a lawyer's paradise unless tightened up (or, better still, abandoned) 9.46 says it better.

Object

Representation ID: 19395

Received: 29/01/2009

Respondent: Rother Environmental Group

The requirement for sustainable design and construction should be at the top of the list as a priority.

Comment

Representation ID: 19435

Received: 30/01/2009

Respondent: Ibstock Brick Limited

The targets to increase housing stock in Rother of 5600 and the specific unit numbers in Bexhill (3400) place considerable emphasis on the need for construction materials. The brickworks can assist in providing a locally sourced construction material to assist in developing the built environment in keeping with the local vernacular.

Object

Representation ID: 19499

Received: 24/02/2009

Respondent: Southern Water

None of the preferred strategies in the Strategy Direction document appears to deal with amenity protection. Consideration of amenity is important in relation to development proposals adjacent to sewage treatment works. The preferred strategy should be extended to incorporate this need.

" This can be achieved by designating an appropriate buffer zone around the treatment works within which development sensitive to odour is excluded.

We therefore propose that the preferred strategy for Design Quality and the Built Environment should make reference to protecting the amenity of new development. An additional criterion in Box 29 would satisfy our objection, as shown below
(ix)Protect the amenity of the development

Comment

Representation ID: 19616

Received: 30/01/2009

Respondent: Rother and Hastings CPRE

Page 112 Box 29 Design quality must be a factor these days in dealing with the problem of light pollution, caused by many developments these days, authorised under the guise of health and safety or crime prevention measures

Support

Representation ID: 19720

Received: 02/03/2009

Respondent: Messrs. Chishick, Commotto and Terry

This section is excellent.
We support the decision to set high quality design as a central and distinct strategy theme, rather than rely on a general expectation.

We urge the inclusion of a strategy to encourage improvements to the public realm, particularly by the highways authorities and statutory undertakers, in the normal course of repairs and maintenance (not just when upgrading or undertaking new developments).

Strategy (d) to provide design guidance is very welcome. We trust this will include archaeological advice when work is contemplated on historic structures. The lack of such advice has been an issue recently in Winchelsea.

Support

Representation ID: 20027

Received: 27/01/2009

Respondent: Mr. A. Miskin

Agent: DMH Stallard

Agree (with Preferred Approaches document) that new development offers an opportunity to create new places and buildings with their own positive architectural character and place-making qualities that respect their local context and setting.

Object

Representation ID: 20039

Received: 29/01/2009

Respondent: Laurence Keeley

Paragraphs 12.15 to 12.18.

We have huge individual debts, family breakdown, crime and mental depression in our communities, businesses have closed down to become brown field sites creating more job losses. Many of these problems derive from the layout and designs of estates, where there is no open space and communities do not communicate with each other.
Whilst it is important to have ones own space, people do need the company of others and a revised layout and design is needed.

Object

Representation ID: 20042

Received: 29/01/2009

Respondent: Laurence Keeley

Building houses with bricks increases CO2 emissions. We are destroying fish breeding beds by dredging the sea beds for shingle. I suggest houses should be built using timber on a steel frame; sheep's wool for insulation and fireproofing and solar panels on the roof.

Could grow trees to help the environment, using wool would help farmers and using steel would help Corus the steel company.

Comment

Representation ID: 20413

Received: 29/01/2009

Respondent: Sussex Wildlife Trust

Include biodiversity features and incorporate habitat creation at the design stage.

Comment

Representation ID: 20425

Received: 30/01/2009

Respondent: BWEA

Planning Policy Statement 22 states that local development documents should contain policies designed to promote and encourage, rather than restrict, the development of renewable energy resources. BWEA therefore recommend that policies designed to safeguard the character and setting of listed buildings, conservation areas and greenbelt, for example, have regard to the positive contribution that renewable energy can play in reducing the Council's overall CO2 emissions and in mitigating against the environmentally damaging effects of climate change.