Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 16180
Received: 16/05/2016
Respondent: Anderson Group
Agent: Bidwells
All of the available evidence points to the acceptability of rural housing in line with national policy and practice guidance. But the Plan disregards all of this in favour of a strategy proposing rural restraint which is not led by any evidence. This approach is likely to have serious unintended negative consequences for wider sustainability objectives in the rural but this goes unappreciated by the Draft Local Plan because it has not been drafted with an understanding of such issues. The proposed policy of rural restraint is therefore unsound because it is not consistent with national policy, not based on adequate evidence and is unjustified, contrary to paragraph 183 of the Framework.
See attached.