Object

Representation ID: 30147

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Clive Brook Planning

THE SUSTAINABILITY APPRAISAL OF SITE EM/005

Given the description of the site and the summary assessment it appears that the larger site containing the southern residential curtilage and buildings has been included. This mistake needs to be rectified and a site sustainability re-assessment carried out.

Many documents have been provided and were covered in the formal pre-app assessment referred to in this response. It does not appear that these have been fully taken into account.

COMMENTS IN RELATION TO SPECIFIC SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA USED

Criterion 3 Land and Buildings – the site has a better rating than the preferred allocation site- EM/007.

Criterion 4 -Climate Change resilience- It is not clear why this site is rated green pink- and the preferred site green+ when both are in FZ1 and there is only a very small area of differential which may be in the southern section of the site which should not have been included.

Criterion 6 Biodiversity and Geodiversity- Account needs to be taken of the proposals for the outline biodiversity, recreation and other environmental improvements which are proposed for this site and which are wholly capable of being accommodated on site. This does not apply to site EM/007.

Criterion 7 Landscape and Townscape- Landscape improvements have been discussed with officers at the pre-app meeting and are included in submissions. There is full potential to improve the current landscape as well as accommodating the proposed level of development, subject to detailed site planning and negotiations.

Criterion 10- Transport- Cliff Delph scores better than the preferred site.

Criterion 12- Accessible Services- the Cliff Delph site is marginally preferable to the preferred allocation.

Criterion 17 Education- Cliff Delph again scores better on access to schools.

Based on this rational comparison of performance the Cliff Delph site EM/005 is preferable to the much smaller selected allocation site EM/007.