Object

Preferred Options for Sites

Representation ID: 64044

Received: 17/04/2014

Respondent: Mr Bryan Pratt

Representation Summary:

GTAA not validated
No duty to co-operate
Little publicity of the consultation process
Underhanded and opaque move to deceive:
Overstatement of need from Government down.
Site does not meet fundamental criteria laid out in NPPF, namely:
Accessibility to local services
Proximity to local community (no integration)
Proximity to schools/surgeries which are at capacity
Undrained flood plain with no sewerage connection and opposite aerial discharge from Barnwell Chicken Farm odours

Full text:

I wish to object to the aforementioned preferred site GT04.
My reasons for this objection are as follows:
1) WDC utilised the findings in the Salford GTAA report in order to establish need. However, there is no evidence of WDC's due diligence in validating the data contained therein and therefore the extrapolated need:
2) According to the Government's planning policy framework, adjacent DCs are required to collaborate. This is not the case because SDC is behind WDC with their consultations. This was obvious at the Harbury meeting:
3) There has been little proactive publicity of the consultation process on the part of WDC. Had it not been for a Harbury group of residents then this "consultation" would have passed them by:
4) This feels like an underhanded and opaque move to deceive:
5) There could be the real result of an overstatement of G&T need because of this general confusion from the Government down.

My objections specific to site GT04
1) The site does not meet the fundamental planning criteria laid out in the NPPF, namely:
2) Accessibility to shops and local services (5-10 minutes walk on a pavement):
3) Proximity to a local community (no integration):
4) Proximity to local schools / surgeries (5-19 minutes walk away) proposed 45 minutes. Also local schools and surgeries are at capacity:
5) It lies on an undrained flood plain with no sewerage connection and is opposite a zone of aerial discharge from Barnwell Chicken Farm which raises serious environmental and health concerns due to noxious smells emanating from this farm at certain times.