Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)

Comment

Representation ID: 27231

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: Guestling Parish Council

A strengthened tree and hedgerow policy is required. Many areas in the Parish suffer with flooding and removal of tree and hedgerows for building and clearing is a concern. If the policy is put in place, it requires strong and immediate enforcement and staffing levels available to do this at a local level. Once removed, tree and hedgerow reinstatement takes years.

Comment

Representation ID: 27232

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: Guestling Parish Council

All monitoring and framework and indicators are pointless if they are not being monitored once the planning has been actioned in the field and then enforced if conditions have not been adhered to. This is relevant to the whole policy document and suggestions.

Comment

Representation ID: 27233

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: Guestling Parish Council

All monitoring and framework and indicators are pointless if they are not being monitored once the planning has been actioned in the field and then enforced if conditions have not been adhered to. This is relevant to the whole policy document and suggestions.

Comment

Representation ID: 27234

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: Guestling Parish Council

The existing WWTWs in Guestling Parish have inadequate capacity. The WWTWs that outflow into the Rye Bay RAMSAR discharged raw sewage into the above ground drainage system that flows into the Pannel and Marsham sewers more frequently and for a greater number of hours than all the WWTWs between Rock a Nore and Bexhill discharged into the sea. Southern Water would have us believe that their expansion of the Guestling Green WWTW allows for a futher 84 connections to be made. It was following this expansion and modernisation that this WWTW remained the plant with the worst record. It has been stated categorically by the Marsham Future Landscapes Trust that annual rainfall in this area has fallen. This is evidentially untrue for the last 12 years.

Failure of Southern Water's infrastructure is not relevant to planning decisions.

The gap between RDC policy and reality is a major problem in the credibility of planning for the future. Good intentions will not change anything. Connections to the WWT system should only be allowed if the infrastructure is adequate. No housing scheme or house extension should be permitted unless it can be shown demonstrably by Southern Water that they are actually fulfilling their role in safeguarding our environment.

Comment

Representation ID: 27235

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: Guestling Parish Council

The existing WWTWs in Guestling Parish have inadequate capacity. The WWTWs that outflow into the Rye Bay RAMSAR discharged raw sewage into the above ground drainage system that flows into the Pannel and Marsham sewers more frequently and for a greater number of hours than all the WWTWs between Rock a Nore and Bexhill discharged into the sea. Southern Water would have us believe that their expansion of the Guestling Green WWTW allows for a futher 84 connections to be made. It was following this expansion and modernisation that this WWTW remained the plant with the worst record. It has been stated categorically by the Marsham Future Landscapes Trust that annual rainfall in this area has fallen. This is evidentially untrue for the last 12 years.

Failure of Southern Water's infrastructure is not relevant to planning decisions.

The gap between RDC policy and reality is a major problem in the credibility of planning for the future. Good intentions will not change anything. Connections to the WWT system should only be allowed if the infrastructure is adequate. No housing scheme or house extension should be permitted unless it can be shown demonstrably by Southern Water that they are actually fulfilling their role in safeguarding our environment.

Comment

Representation ID: 27236

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: Guestling Parish Council

The existing WWTWs in Guestling Parish have inadequate capacity. The WWTWs that outflow into the Rye Bay RAMSAR discharged raw sewage into the above ground drainage system that flows into the Pannel and Marsham sewers more frequently and for a greater number of hours than all the WWTWs between Rock a Nore and Bexhill discharged into the sea. Southern Water would have us believe that their expansion of the Guestling Green WWTW allows for a futher 84 connections to be made. It was following this expansion and modernisation that this WWTW remained the plant with the worst record. It has been stated categorically by the Marsham Future Landscapes Trust that annual rainfall in this area has fallen. This is evidentially untrue for the last 12 years.

Failure of Southern Water's infrastructure is not relevant to planning decisions.

The gap between RDC policy and reality is a major problem in the credibility of planning for the future. Good intentions will not change anything. Connections to the WWT system should only be allowed if the infrastructure is adequate. No housing scheme or house extension should be permitted unless it can be shown demonstrably by Southern Water that they are actually fulfilling their role in safeguarding our environment.

Comment

Representation ID: 27237

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: Guestling Parish Council

The existing WWTWs in Guestling Parish have inadequate capacity. The WWTWs that outflow into the Rye Bay RAMSAR discharged raw sewage into the above ground drainage system that flows into the Pannel and Marsham sewers more frequently and for a greater number of hours than all the WWTWs between Rock a Nore and Bexhill discharged into the sea. Southern Water would have us believe that their expansion of the Guestling Green WWTW allows for a futher 84 connections to be made. It was following this expansion and modernisation that this WWTW remained the plant with the worst record. It has been stated categorically by the Marsham Future Landscapes Trust that annual rainfall in this area has fallen. This is evidentially untrue for the last 12 years.

Failure of Southern Water's infrastructure is not relevant to planning decisions.

The gap between RDC policy and reality is a major problem in the credibility of planning for the future. Good intentions will not change anything. Connections to the WWT system should only be allowed if the infrastructure is adequate. No housing scheme or house extension should be permitted unless it can be shown demonstrably by Southern Water that they are actually fulfilling their role in safeguarding our environment.

Comment

Representation ID: 27238

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: Guestling Parish Council

Guestling is a relatively small parish consisting of three, separate urban conurbations, Three Oaks, Guestling Green and the largest being Coghurst Caravan Park. Generally, the infrastructure servicing these is poor with only one main road (A259) bisecting Guestling Green while both Three Oaks and Coghurst Caravan Park served by only 'C' class roads. There are minimal footways/cycleways and buses only serving Guestling Green and Friars Hill/Pet Road. There is a Railway Halt in Three Oaks but no facilities for parking, cycles etc. and access restricted to a narrow and steep footway that can become icy during the winter months. Three Oaks and Coghurst Caravan Park are accessed by Butchers Lane (from the A259), lvyhouse Lane and Chowns Hill (which joins The Ridge in Hastings). These lanes are used by HGV's as a shortcut and by many rat-running vehicles seeking to avoid the inevitable congestion on The Ridge. This has resulted in extremely poor road surfaces and drainage on lanes with single way traffic in parts and no footways.

Other infrastructure is little better with very poor broadband connections due to overhead copper telephone lines, a water supply system that is in need of replacement with many breaks and water outages or low pressure over the last few years, and a sewage system that, particularly the system serving Guestling Green, is inadequate with regular discharging of untreated sewage in to local ditches and water courses.

Comment

Representation ID: 27239

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: Guestling Parish Council

Very broad in concept and is unlikely to affect Guestling and there are no sites likely to be large enough to require infrastructure provision or significant improvements.

Comment

Representation ID: 27240

Received: 23/07/2024

Respondent: Guestling Parish Council

Certainly the Authority should consider ways whereby small developments, including new or replacement single dwellings, could either contribute to a 'pot' for highway improvements or be requested to provide a 1.5m level strip of grass verge across their frontage to provide a pedestrian refuge or footway in dry weather. The Highway Authority could consider adopting these as maintainable highway.