Object

Representation ID: 18393

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Johnson Mowat

With reference to Table 1 and the following paragraph, Johnson Mowat objects to the category description of any development other than that categorised as ‘Zero-Car’, ‘Traffic-Free’ or ‘Car-Light’ as ‘Unsustainable’. The sustainability of any development depends upon a range of social, environmental and economic factors. It is not appropriate to define a category of development as ‘unsustainable’ in outright terms when consideration is given only to location and parking provision.


Johnson Mowat is concerned that the inclusion of unduly low parking standards in the draft Plan and the application of these in practice risks causing problems of on-street and inconsiderate parking including damage to landscape planting and verges etc. Parking provision should be carefully considered at the planning application stage in the particular context of the development proposed.