Core Strategy Issues & Options

Comment

Representation ID: 18551

Received: 08/12/2006

Respondent: High Weald AONB Unit

The Strategy should define what is meant by sustainability in local terms. Is it just related to transport and travel to work or does it include concepts of environmental sustainability ie that there are other aspects to sustainable living that are not based solely on proximity to services

Comment

Representation ID: 18552

Received: 08/12/2006

Respondent: High Weald AONB Unit

Home working, flexible working habits and live-work units could protentially provide a significant element of working premises and options. Such faciltiies are part of the changing pattern of employment and should be supported. Also local jobs for local people should be encouraged, particularly as regards local land based industries and land management.

Comment

Representation ID: 18553

Received: 08/12/2006

Respondent: High Weald AONB Unit

Support references to the High Weald AONB. Ideally reference should be made to the High Weald AONB Management Plan 2004 and the specific approach to conserving and enhancing and 5 major components of natural beauty.

Specific design guidance reflecting the locally distinctive character of the High Weald would assist in promoting local environmental architectural quality.

Wood fuel is a particularly abundant local supply of renewable energy and is readily available. Promotion of wood fuel should be a priority

Comment

Representation ID: 18554

Received: 08/12/2006

Respondent: High Weald AONB Unit

The High Weald AONB is not a suitable location for large scale housing allocations. Large sites for housing should not therefore be located within the AONB. However there may be potential for a wide range of small scale, sustainably located development within the characteristic dispersed pattern of settlement that will meet local needs and be designed to promote the local character of the area.

Strongly support (x) regarding protection of ancient woodland from development.

Comment

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

Representation ID: 18556

Received: 08/12/2006

Respondent: High Weald AONB Unit

Rye is bounded by the AONB and any major expansion on the landward side would constitute an encroachment into the AONB with potentially detrimental impacts on the integrity of the AONB boundary in this location

Comment

Representation ID: 18557

Received: 08/12/2006

Respondent: High Weald AONB Unit

It is vital to have a rural policy and vision. This should be based in large part on the needs of the landscape and countryside. To conserve and enhance the AONB requires the supporting of land management and local land based industries and activities as well as promoting the sustainable character of small rural settlements. To maintain the quality of the countryside requires traditional land management and the local housing and services to support it. A vision is required to this end rather than the current vacuum that exists in favour of the urban areas.

Comment

Representation ID: 18558

Received: 08/12/2006

Respondent: High Weald AONB Unit

Option 4 should be explored in detail in line with research undertaken for the AONB which suggests an alternative approach to rural sustainable development which would support a more dispersed development approach, supporting the AONB Management Objective to preserve the historic dispersed settlement pattern. Any option to develop villages will have a serious impact upon them, but a considerable degree of development could be absorbed within hamlets farmsteads and small settlements with minor impact upon the landcape.