Object

Representation ID: 66029

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: David Pickering

Agent: Mr Richard Cobb

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

The process of identifying Primary and Secondary Service Villages, has failed to examine in any objective depth whether other limited infill villages might benefit from modest further development.

Within Rowington Green a further limited amount of residential development - beyond the suggested one or two dwellings set out in the policy - would meet the wider identified needs of the community.
The strong locational synergy between Kingswood and Rowington would mean that release of this site at Rowington Green would either take the place of at least one of the sites identified at Kingswood to fulfil the number of dwellings required in that settlement (100-150) of which sites for only 62 were originally designated, now reduced to 43, or contribute additional housing to the total provision being sought by the Council in rural areas.
The Rowington Parish Plan 2009 for example recognised in its guiding principles the need to ensure the continuation and regeneration of the Parish by having a broad range of accommodation including for the elderly, single or young families looking for either smaller or affordable
accommodation. This need was seen as enabling a limited number of younger people to move into the Parish to provide new blood in the community.