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Draft South Pennine Moors SPA/SAC Planning Framework Supplementary Planning Document
Representation ID: 5538
Received: 24/03/2021
Respondent: Mr & Mrs A & J Hardy
Agent: SSA Planning Limited
We consider that seeking contributions from tourist accommodation as well as dwellings is a form of double-counting, as each resident will likely also at some point be a tourist and vice versa. It will also impact the viability of new tourist accommodation, a key component of post-pandemic economic recovery locally and nationally. We do not consider the impact from each space or unit of self-catering, caravan and touring holiday accommodation to be the same as that from a dwelling and the supporting text and documents do not evidence this. Assessing impact in this way appears not to account for the greater seasonality and likelihood of voids in self-catering and particularly caravan and touring holiday accommodation compared to dwellings (or hotel and guest house accommodation). Indeed, as paragraph 5.16 indicates, holiday makers are outliers in survey results, yet would comprise all of the users of self-catering, caravan and touring holiday accommodation.
We consider that seeking contributions from tourist accommodation as well as dwellings is a form of double-counting, as each resident will likely also at some point be a tourist and vice versa. It will also impact the viability of new tourist accommodation, a key component of post-pandemic economic recovery locally and nationally. We do not consider the impact from each space or unit of self-catering, caravan and touring holiday accommodation to be the same as that from a dwelling and the supporting text and documents do not evidence this. Assessing impact in this way appears not to account for the greater seasonality and likelihood of voids in self-catering and particularly caravan and touring holiday accommodation compared to dwellings (or hotel and guest house accommodation). Indeed, as paragraph 5.16 indicates, holiday makers are outliers in survey results, yet would comprise all of the users of self-catering, caravan and touring holiday accommodation.