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Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission
Policy H3 Non-Strategic Parish Housing Requirements 2021 - 2039
Representation ID: 5124
Received: 17/03/2023
Respondent: Boxgrove Parish Council
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? Not specified
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Objection to Boxgrove's allocation of 50 dwellings on grounds that over 50% of land in parish lies within SDNP; HELAA sites within countryside; lack of capacity at local school and A27; views would be compromised by development; heritage assets affected; use of agricultural land.
Boxgrove Parish Council wish to contest the allocation of 50 dwellings during the Local Plan duration.
The Local Plan consultation period has not allowed sufficient time for proper local consultation and includes proposals that have never previously been consulted upon.
We do not understand how so many of the sites, previously discounted in the 2018 HELAA, for various reasons, are now designated in the 2021 HELAA as having ‘no known constraints’ to development on the same sites.
Furthermore, out of 11 Service Village Parishes, found to have potential sites for dwellings in 2018, 7 of these now have a zero allocation in the Local Plan. Boxgrove has been allocated 50 dwellings, despite over 50% of Boxgrove’s land area lying within the boundary of the SDNP.
All of the sites identified are outside of the existing Settlement Boundary, and are therefore in ‘The Countryside’, in contravention of your Policy NE10.
The village school is at capacity and there are no known plans to expand it.
There are future capacity issues at the A27 Tangmere roundabout junction and concerns about future short cutting through Boxgrove and the already narrow and winding local roads to the north.
The Conservation Area Character Appraisals identify many long views out of the CA’s, which would be compromised by development.
Boxgrove and the village of Halnaker both have Conservation Areas and there are a total of 51 listed buildings and two Scheduled Monuments in the Parish many of which would be affected by development on the sites identified.
Development would be in contravention of your Policies P9, P10 and P11 of the Local Plan.
All the sites, identified as potentially developable, are on agricultural land. These are either currently farmed, are vineyards or are livery. This land is graded 2 or 3 in contravention of Policy NE2 Natural Landscape.
In conclusion, we believe that the HELAA and the allocation of 50 dwellings for Boxgrove in the Local Plan are unachievable on most of the sites identified. We are sure that a small number of sites for a lower number of dwellings may be achievable,and intend to consider this as part of the revisions to our Neighbourhood Plan.
The housing distribution seeks to reconcile a range of factors in order to achieve the most sustainable approach to the distribution of development. This is set out in the more detail within the Sustainability Appraisal and Housing Distribution Background Paper.
As set out in the SA and Housing Distribution Background Paper the numbers set for Boxgrove are the most appropriate when taking into account the full range of factors needing to be considered.
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Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission
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Representation ID: 5688
Received: 17/03/2023
Respondent: Boxgrove Parish Council
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
Boxgrove Parish Council supports the plan overall and that the plan is legally compliant and sound, but feels that the Local Plan consultation period has not allowed sufficient time for proper local consultation and includes proposals that have never previously been consulted upon in Boxgrove.
Boxgrove Parish Council supports the plan overall and that the plan is legally compliant and sound, but feels that the Local Plan consultation period has not
allowed sufficient time for proper local consultation and includes proposals that have never previously been consulted upon in Boxgrove.
We do not understand how so many of the sites, previously discounted in the 2018 HELAA, for various reasons, are now designated in the 2021 HELAA as having ‘no known constraints’ to development on the same sites.
There is considerable flexibility open to LPAs in how the initial stages of local plan production are carried out and there is no requirement to have a further Regulation 18 consultation.
The Chichester Local Plan; Proposed Submission proposes a parish housing figure for Boxgrove of 50 dwellings (Policy H2). This is unchanged from the Preferred Approach Local Plan, which was the subject of consultation during December 2018 – February 2019.