Core Strategy Consultation on Strategy Directions 2008

Object

Representation ID: 19492

Received: 24/02/2009

Respondent: Southern Water

Southern Water supports the inclusion of infrastructure sections in all Spatial Development Strategy Areas and specifically the inclusion of text to highlight the need for utilities connections.

To be consistent with the other Strategy Areas and to highlight the need for the provision of water and wastewater infrastructure we propose an additional bullet point is added to paragraph 6.55 as below
• Utilities connections for gas, electricity, water supply and wastewater for existing and new allocations

Support

Representation ID: 19493

Received: 24/02/2009

Respondent: Southern Water

Southern Water recognises the need to protect designated areas from inappropriate development. However, the provision of additional water and wastewater infrastructure may be required within the designated area. PPS7 and PPS9 recognise the need for development in exceptional circumstances and that the benefits of the development outweigh the impacts on the site.

Southern Water supports the strategy direction of allowing development in certain specific circumstances.

Support

Representation ID: 19494

Received: 24/02/2009

Respondent: Southern Water

Southern Water supports the use of the Code for Sustainable Homes (CfSH) standards in new residential development.

We would support a policy to require generation of 10% renewable energy for individual developments provided a feasibility clause is incorporated to recognise that it is not always possible to achieve this proportion at individual sites.

Support

Representation ID: 19495

Received: 24/02/2009

Respondent: Southern Water

Southern Water supports the need for contributions towards the provision of new or improved infrastructure to support development.


Southern Water supports the council's approach to securing the provision of water and wastewater infrastructure in a co-ordinated way and only permitting development if it has no adverse effect on the quality and potential yield of water resources.

Southern Water supports the inclusion of text which identifies our strategic water resource options for the South East, and the policy text stating the potential need to safeguard and, if necessary, allocate land for the enlargement of Bewl Water Reservoir and/or Darwell Reservoir.

Support

Representation ID: 19496

Received: 24/02/2009

Respondent: Southern Water

Southern Water supports the comprehensive preferred policy direction for flood risk. In periods of flooding, surface water can inundate the public sewerage system thereby exceeding its capacity. The extra pressure can cause flows from the main sewer to surcharge up tributary sewers. As a result, properties may become flooded by foul sewage, even relatively remote from the flooded site.

We support the objectives of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDS) provided arrangements exist for the long term maintenance of them, so that their effectiveness is maintained in perpetuity. This is because such systems rely on facilities which are not adoptable by sewerage undertakers. Good management can avoid flooding and subsequent inundation of the foul sewerage system.

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

Object

Representation ID: 19500

Received: 24/02/2009

Respondent: Southern Water

Southern Water is committed to meeting the demand for water and wastewater services arising from new development.

Southern Water needs information on the location, scale and timing of development, particularly relating to wastewater services. The sewerage system operates mainly by gravity and is therefore inflexible, and it is split into many discrete catchments. The location of development is therefore critical as it determines which drainage catchment will receive the waste.

Southern Water will plan the investment required to serve Rother when this information is published and anticipates strategic sites will be included in the Core Strategy document to facilitate its planning.

Comment

Representation ID: 20508

Received: 24/02/2009

Respondent: Southern Water

We propose that the policy must also include standards to achieve water efficiency in new non-residential development.

The proportion of renewable energy generated at individual sites may be higher or lower than this average. It is not always feasible to achieve 10% renewable energy generation at a particular site as the energy that can be created depends on site-specific circumstances.