Comment

Representation ID: 25976

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: David furness

Land to the south of Virgins Lane, Battle, should have been allocated in the Battle Neighbourhood Plan. It is sustainable and the owner was willing to give extra land for community use. The land in questions would:
improving local access to services and facilities;
ensuring a mix of house sizes across the district, including for those in affordable housing need; and
utilising change and growth to enable people to live locally and reduce the need to travel, particularly by private car.
Is there any way these decisions made can be challenged and amended?

Comment

Representation ID: 26807

Received: 31/07/2024

Respondent: Northern Parishes Group

Cross-referencing
9) One of the many welcome features of this document is the cross-referencing to other policies. An example can be found in the Live Well Locally section at page 63. There other policies are helpfully laid out. However, the description for each policy can probably by reduced by 40%, but their inclusion is significant. It would be helpful to all readers if other policies were listed as cross-references. The obvious ones to add would be the NPPF 2023 entries, which is part cross-referenced within the document. An example of this can be found at page 186, para 5.1. It would be helpful if each of the five NPPF 2023 requirements in the paragraph of the document were identified. If all relevant policies were given a two line entry, the document would be much more helpful.

Comment

Representation ID: 26808

Received: 31/07/2024

Respondent: Northern Parishes Group

The Glossary page 440
10) One of the most helpful sections in the draft Local Plan is the glossary at page 440. Regretfully, it is anticipated that most people will not know about it. It is suggested that where terms like affordable homes, ancient woodland, and gypsy and traveller are referred to, a cross-reference to their definition would be helpful.
11) The authors may wish to give consistency to the capitalization of the entries in the glossary and make all the sentences start with a capital letter. The authors may also wish to change the title from Glossary to Definitions. Where the NPPF or Act of Parliament gives a definition (which would be binding on this document) it would be helpful to add that or give it a cross-reference. The group notices that ‘Spatial development’ is not listed and the authors might consider that would be very helpful. Neither is ‘Spatial’ listed. It may be that it would be better to delete the word spatial in the whole document but unfortunately the word appears in statute. The group also noticed there is not a list of abbreviations. As there are many sections where an abbreviation is given without specifying what it is, a one page list of abbreviations would be helpful.

Comment

Representation ID: 26809

Received: 31/07/2024

Respondent: Northern Parishes Group

Paragraph numbering
12) As local plans are referred to during public inquiries and in the Courts, paragraph numbering speeds up those hearings. It is noted that some policies that stretch to a page, have no paragraph numbers, see page 215. It is also noted that a variety of different ways are used to give numbers and letters to the paragraphs. It is thought that this undermines the presentation of this document. The authors are invited to consider that all policies should have the same numbering style. The suggestion the group makes is as follows. Sections should be A, B, C etc. Paragraphs should be 1, 2, 3 etc. Sub-paragraphs should be a) b) c) etc. Divisions within sub-paragraphs should be i), ii), iii) etc.
Digital links
13) As so many people now use digital copies of documents, the authors are invited to consider that all documents referred to in the Local Plan should have a digital link to the document.
Need for an index
14) Many topics are dealt with in more than one policy. It would help people who are seeing the document for the first time and those who use it use it regularly, for the document to have an index.

Comment

Representation ID: 27764

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: Salehurst & Robertsbridge Parish Council

The plan is lengthy and complex, and this will likely mean that many residents will not take the opportunity to comment.