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Representation ID: 29053

Received: 29/03/2021

Respondent: Historic England

Local Growth & Service Centres - NPPF paragraph 127 states that planning policy should ensure developments establish or maintain a strong sense of place in order to create attractive, welcoming and distinctive places. Distinctiveness is not solely about the aesthetic qualities of the built and natural environment – it also reflects an area’s function, history and culture. We suggest that the term diversity is replaced by a reference to distinctiveness which encompasses this term but also covers these wider considerations of an areas function, history and culture.

Local Growth Centres, Criterion 1, amend to read:
‘Achieve a high standard of design that protects and enhances settlement and landscape character and distinctiveness.’

Service and Rural Areas, Criterion 1, amend to read:
‘Achieve a high standard of design that protects and enhances settlement and landscape character and distinctiveness.’

We support the intention that, in these settlements, the emphasis will be on smaller-scale developments which meet local needs together with the protection and enhancement of those centres as attractive, vibrant places which provide quality of place and excellent environmental conditions.