Respondent name
Gillian Lett
Responses
Respondent Type
Resident
Policy Name/Part of plan
Whole Plan
Legally Compliant
No
Sound
No
Compliant with the Duty to Co-operate
No
Oral Examination
Yes
Why you consider the Draft Local Plan is not legally compliant or is unsound or fails to comply with the duty to co-operate

The Plan fails to meet the requirements of national policy in the NPPF.

Modification if applicable

The Plan should be revisited in full and subject to furtehr public consultation.

Summary of comments

The Plan as a whole is highly ambitious and is unnecessary it its scale, particularly in respect of the SEWUE.

Paragraph/policy sub

Whole Plan soundness

Respondent Type
Resident
Policy Name/Part of plan
DEV1
Legally Compliant
No
Sound
No
Compliant with the Duty to Co-operate
No
Oral Examination
Yes
Modification if applicable

There should be NO plan for further housing numbers beyond the Plan period, as the numbers have been removed from the Plan.

Summary of comments

In terms of the SEWUE there is still the potential for a furtehr 1,800 homes to be built outside of the plan period. These means that effective the proposals remain the same, just the timeline has moved. This applies to the wider Plan as a whole.

Respondent Type
Resident
Policy Name/Part of plan
MD2
Legally Compliant
No
Sound
No
Compliant with the Duty to Co-operate
No
Oral Examination
Yes
Why you consider the Draft Local Plan is not legally compliant or is unsound or fails to comply with the duty to co-operate

There is no exceptional circumstance which justifies 'releasing' the land around Stretton village from the Green Belt. Increasing development within south Warrington does not represent sound judement when congestion is already an issue.

Modification if applicable

The identity of each village should be protected. The land arround Stretton should not be removed from the Green Belt. There should be no building on the Green Belt until all brownfield sites have been developed first and this should be the leading strategy for the Local Plan.

Summary of comments

The SEWUE will destroy the lovely individual and historic villages, which distinguish south Warrington and create a huge sprawl of high density housing on valuable Green Belt land. This will lose the identity of each village. The area around Stretton village should be protected and remain in the Green belt. There is no exceptional circumstance to do this. Any building on this land will result in over-capacity at the Cat & Lion junction and beyond. It will also increase the dangerous "rat-run" along Stretton Road and Hatton Lane.