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Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
51. What are your views on the Council's preferred spatial development options?
Representation ID: 26992
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Northiam Parish Council
This spatial development option will now need to be reconsidered in the light of the proposed NPPF statutory homes targets.
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Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
52. Do you have any comments on the merits of the alternative Spatial Development Options, that do not form part of the preferred development options – as explained in the background paper?
Representation ID: 26993
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Northiam Parish Council
In the light of a revised NPPF, these options may need to be re-examined.
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Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
54. What are your views on the Council's proposed spatial development strategy and proposed minimum targets for housing and employment growth?
Representation ID: 26994
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Northiam Parish Council
Overall the policy appears to be cogent and logical. With respect to Northiam the policy strategy states ‘clusters of villages based around the towns of Battle and Rye which act as key transport hubs’. We do feel that describing Rye as a ‘transport hub’ is stretching its usefulness. It would help if the buses coordinated with the trains!
This is a strategy that will need to be amended in line with revised Govt. policy i.e. fixed housing numbers.
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Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
66. What are your views on the distribution and opportunities for growth in settlements within the sub-area in figures 25, 26 & 27?
Representation ID: 26995
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Northiam Parish Council
NPC accepts that scope for development is limited due to factors such as flooding, the HWNL (AONB) and access issues.
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Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
67. What are your views on the potential sites identified in the draft HELAA that could accommodate more growth in Rye and the eastern network settlements?
Representation ID: 26996
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Northiam Parish Council
The only site set out in the DaSA is as below
and was also set out in the RDC DaSAP 2019. Given the protected trees on the site, the large pond, the slope and possible ownership issues, NPC questions whether 6 units is practical and achievable on this site.
NPC has considered the reasons for the rejection of other potential sites in Northiam and supports the conclusions reached.
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Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
72. What are your views on the vision for Rother's countryside?
Representation ID: 26997
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Northiam Parish Council
NPC supports this policy.
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Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
65. What are your views on the vision for Rye and the eastern network settlements?
Representation ID: 26998
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Northiam Parish Council
NPC supports the thrust of the policy and in particular the designation of the proposed level of new housing and employment currently specified for Northiam.
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Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
116. What are your views on the Council's proposed policy on affordable housing?
Representation ID: 26999
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Northiam Parish Council
NPC supports the approach taken by RDC.
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Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
117. Are there any alternatives or additional points the Council should be considering?
Representation ID: 27000
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Northiam Parish Council
It is stated that the exact % of affordable housing to be provided within each development will be specified after this consultation and following a viability report. Such reports have scuppered many a scheme in Rother. RDC needs to consider the tricks that can be played by developers such as offering a small number of affordable units knowing full well that no social housing providers (SHP) will take them up and they will then revert to market housing as recently in Northiam.
How about RDC purchasing them and entering into an arrangement with a SHP?
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Rother Local Plan 2020-2040 (Regulation 18)
118. Do you consider that prioritising affordable housing or the Community Infrastructure Levy is more important for Rother?
Representation ID: 27001
Received: 22/07/2024
Respondent: Northiam Parish Council
It is not a question of one or the other. All housing, affordable or not, requires suitable and appropriate infrastructure.
We await the new government policy on affordable housing and how it may be funded.
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