Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 16179
Received: 16/05/2016
Respondent: Anderson Group
Agent: Bidwells
Object. The spatial strategy relates specifically the following: - Arbitrary blanket restraint to growth in the villages including Blackmore - The totality of development proposed in the Dunton Hills Garden Suburb.
The Draft Plan's supporting material provides no evidence to support its stance that rural growth restraint would retain local character. The Landscape Character Assessment makes no such assertion that development would be detrimental in the rural area around Blackmore. The Retail and Commercial Leisure Study identifies the range of shops and facilities in Blackmore Village Centre as "providing an in-demand service" the Draft Plan acknowledges the role of the village local centres such as Blackmore as playing a "vital role in providing day to day services". But the Draft Plan's blanket restriction on growth assumes that such development would have negative consequences without evidence to back up the assertion.
See attached.