Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 24743
Received: 31/05/2024
Respondent: Sedlescombe Parish Council
It is important to achieve higher standards but what standards is this question asking about?
High standards must balance with escalating costs in an impoverished area
Please see attached comments on draft Local Plan, including Brede Valley Landscape Assessment and East Sussex Landscape Assessment.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 24993
Received: 04/07/2024
Respondent: Ramblers
As a charity working to protect and enhance the areas where we all love to walk, The Ramblers fully support the Plan´s overall priority of being Green To The Core. It is crucial that Rother Council sets and maintains the highest of standards, ensuring that all planning decisions mitigate and adapt to the Climate Emergency.
As a charity working to protect and enhance the areas where we all love to walk, The Ramblers fully support the Plan´s overall priority of being Green To The Core. It is crucial that Rother Council sets and maintains the highest of standards, ensuring that all planning decisions mitigate and adapt to the Climate Emergency.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 25459
Received: 16/07/2024
Respondent: Ms Isabel Lloyd
I'm very much in favour of Rother going further than the national minimum standard - the previous government's target setting was inadequate and I believe upward pressure from county councils to raise standards is one way to encourage the new government to go further. Low-energy housing makes good sense both for the climate and for householders, and shouldn't be any slower or more expensive to build, particularly when done at scale.
I'm very much in favour of Rother going further than the national minimum standard - the previous government's target setting was inadequate and I believe upward pressure from county councils to raise standards is one way to encourage the new government to go further. Low-energy housing makes good sense both for the climate and for householders, and shouldn't be any slower or more expensive to build, particularly when done at scale.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 25701
Received: 21/07/2024
Respondent: Sussex Wildlife Trust
All local authorities have a key role in meeting the country’s climate change targets. It is vital for Rother to enable the development of low energy homes.
All local authorities have a key role in meeting the country’s climate change targets. It is vital for Rother to enable the development of low energy homes.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 25760
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Mr David Field
I am fully supportive of Rother seeking to set higher standards. But there's a high risk this is just green-washing unless Rother actually APPLIES and enforces those standards in practice. Rother has a reputation around Ticehurst and Wadhurst for poor enforcement and misapplication of standards. A recent example is the approval by Rother DC of a so-called "non-material amendment" to a planning application by Uplands Academy in Wadhurst to cut down numerous trees on their boundary with the High Street. Being inside the Wadhurst Conservation Area these trees should have benefitted from automatic Tree Preservation Orders so should not have been felled. So how could Rother possibly agree Uplands' claim that the amendment was "non-material"? What's the point of standards if you don't apply them? Your Local Plan MUST set policies for enforcement.
I am fully supportive of Rother seeking to set higher standards. But there's a high risk this is just green-washing unless Rother actually APPLIES and enforces those standards in practice. Rother has a reputation around Ticehurst and Wadhurst for poor enforcement and misapplication of standards. A recent example is the approval by Rother DC of a so-called "non-material amendment" to a planning application by Uplands Academy in Wadhurst to cut down numerous trees on their boundary with the High Street. Being inside the Wadhurst Conservation Area these trees should have benefitted from automatic Tree Preservation Orders so should not have been felled. So how could Rother possibly agree Uplands' claim that the amendment was "non-material"? What's the point of standards if you don't apply them? Your Local Plan MUST set policies for enforcement.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 25797
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Mr David Silk
Very important. Numerous residents locally I've spoken to have fairly unanimously agreed that they have a particularly low opinion of the quiality of staff and within RDC and their effectiveness. It is important to set high standards AND ensure that they're being realised, without repeated ieffectual No Further Action notices from enforcement officers.
Very important. Numerous residents locally I've spoken to have fairly unanimously agreed that they have a particularly low opinion of the quiality of staff and within RDC and their effectiveness. It is important to set high standards AND ensure that they're being realised, without repeated ieffectual No Further Action notices from enforcement officers.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 25964
Received: 23/07/2024
Respondent: Justin Walker
Essential. For both the nation and local residents.
Essential. For both the nation and local residents.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 25983
Received: 23/07/2024
Respondent: Trustees of Steellands Farm
Agent: Mr Geoff Megarity
The landowner/clients is of the opinion that these standards are essential for the delivery of a net zero carbon world. They consider these to be very important.
The landowner/clients is of the opinion that these standards are essential for the delivery of a net zero carbon world. They consider these to be very important.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 26094
Received: 23/07/2024
Respondent: Miss Nicky Bishop
Very important indeed. Essential.
We could (and arguably should) aim higher than national standards, which should be regarded as minima (rather than seen as maximum targets).
Very important indeed. Essential.
We could (and arguably should) aim higher than national standards, which should be regarded as minima (rather than seen as maximum targets).
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 26107
Received: 23/07/2024
Respondent: Catesby Estates
Please refer to our full representations and our response to Q6
Please refer to our full representations and our response to Q6
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 26230
Received: 17/07/2024
Respondent: Burwash Parish Council
High standards are very important.
Please see attached comments from Burwash Parish Council.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 26574
Received: 29/07/2024
Respondent: Stephen Nicholls
It is very important and I fully support the proposals at 3.17 and 3.18 to ensure that we get state of
the art homes.
Please see attached submission.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 26889
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Brede Parish Council
Very important to set high standards, with the intention of reaching them. With
90% of our area in the HWNL and National and International protected habitats
and our potential to substantially contribute to National Carbon Sequestration
targets, our standards should be higher than national ones to enable us to
protect that position
Full submission attached.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 26977
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Northiam Parish Council
Whilst a policy that requires higher Net Zero building standards than the national requirements is admirable, we are concerned that it could be considered an additional burden to development and is likely to fall at examination
See attached.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 27033
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Westfield Parish Council
See point 21 in the attached submission.
Please see attached document for the full submission from Westfield Parish Council.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 27279
Received: 23/07/2024
Respondent: Trustees of Steellands Farm
Agent: Mr Geoff Megarity
The landowner/clients is of the opinion that these standards are essential for the delivery of a net zero carbon world. They consider these to be very important.
Please see attached representation from Bell Cornwell on behalf of the Trustees of Steellands Farm, in relation to HELAA sites TIC0043 and TIC0044 which contains an indicative layout plan.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 27380
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Catsfield Parish Council
It is important. Broadly agree
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 27551
Received: 23/07/2024
Respondent: Southern Housing
We support the targets on the basis they are based on evidence in the Rother Climate Change Study (2023). However, although the study references viability, it appears the overall viability of delivering some of these targets may not have been tested vigorously. It is important to ensure the policy remains deliverable for the plan period to be found sound. RDC should also consider bolstering the evidence base to ensure the approach is correct for Rother. Central Lincolnshire has recently adopted a net zero carbon policy which was based on evidence prepared by a team of consultants (Bioregional, Etude, Mode Transport Planning, RSK and Currie & Brown). This is important to ensure the impacts on development, including housing delivery, are tested in full.
Comment
Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
Representation ID: 27777
Received: 23/07/2024
Respondent: Salehurst & Robertsbridge Parish Council
It will be important to ensure that green issues do not automatically override other critically important issues; for example, Policy GTC1 building standards could greatly affect the prospects for some vital developments to move forward and it will sometimes be appropriate to reach a compromise.