Proposed Submission Core Strategy

Soundness: We reluctantly find the document to be sound, from our point of view, with regard to Policies BX1 and CO1 as they will (obliquely) protect your cultural facilities, we think. However we have some comments on inconsistency.

Comments: We find the document confusing as to its intent for the 'cultural' topics. The words 'culture' and 'cultural' appear many times throughout the document but not in any policy.

Item 9 on page 18 (Main Issues), states that there will be better facilities for sports, leisure and culture. This is probably reflected in Policy CO1 for Community Facilities except that the definitions of the term 'community facilities' in the footnote on page 102 does not include sports and leisure. It also ignores sui generis use which would exclude theatres and other leisure facilities. We suggest a more inclusive definition for 'community facilities' should be included in the Glossary for clarity, rather than as a footnote, along the lines of community facilities provide for the health, welfare, social, educational, leisure and cultural needs of the community. Or the footnote should include sports and leisure and sui generis.

Paragraphs 16.15 on page 128 states that one of the main policy areas for the ecoomy is Tourism, leisure and culture, yet leisure and culture do not appear in Policy EC6 on Tourism nor in the accompanying text.

Soundness: We reluctantly find the document to be sound, from our point of view, with regard to Policies BX1 and CO1 as they will (obliquely) protect your cultural facilities, we think. However we have some comments on inconsistency.

Comments: We find the document confusing as to its intent for the 'cultural' topics. The words 'culture' and 'cultural' appear many times throughout the document but not in any policy.

Item 9 on page 18 (Main Issues), states that there will be better facilities for sports, leisure and culture. This is probably reflected in Policy CO1 for Community Facilities except that the definitions of the term 'community facilities' in the footnote on page 102 does not include sports and leisure. It also ignores sui generis use which would exclude theatres and other leisure facilities. We suggest a more inclusive definition for 'community facilities' should be included in the Glossary for clarity, rather than as a footnote, along the lines of community facilities provide for the health, welfare, social, educational, leisure and cultural needs of the community. Or the footnote should include sports and leisure and sui generis.

Paragraphs 16.15 on page 128 states that one of the main policy areas for the ecoomy is Tourism, leisure and culture, yet leisure and culture do not appear in Policy EC6 on Tourism nor in the accompanying text.