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Comment

Representation ID: 25080

Received: 23/11/2017

Respondent: Associated British Ports

New Local Plan would benefit from the inclusion of a new
policy which:
- Identifies the operational Port estate and its relationship to the town centre and IP-One area.
- Supports port development and the growth of the port where this does not conflict with other policies in the Plan; and
- addresses the particular development considerations which should apply in the interface area between the port estate and the town centre and IP-One areas. Such a policy would address the imprecision and lack of clarity of the current draft version of the DPD.
Whilst Policy DM25 serves to safeguard existing employment areas, it is important that care is exercised when development proposals are brought forward in the vicinity of these areas (consistent, perhaps, with other policies of the DPD) to ensure that this new development does not prejudice existing employment uses
and business operations which are "appropriately located". ABP requests, therefore, recognition in the new Local Plan that it will not apply policies in isolation in exercising its development control functions.