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Anglian Water notes that the focus of Policy CS17 is the use of planning obligations to secure the required off and on-site infrastructure to support additional development.

Anglian Water as a water and sewerage company seeks fair contributions through charges directly from developers under the provisions of the Water Industry Act 1991 to supply water and/or drain a site effectively. As such we would not, in most cases, make use of planning obligations or standard charges under Planning Legislation for this purpose.

However the use of planning conditions is of importance to Anglian Water. Therefore we would ask that the policy includes reference to use of planning conditions to ensure that development is aligned with the necessary infrastructure e.g. works within the foul sewerage network.

We would therefore ask that Policy be amended to include reference to use of planning conditions as well as Section 106 agreements.

It is suggested that the following wording or similar be included after the second paragraph in the Policy.

Conditions or planning obligations,as part of a package or combination of infrastructure delivery measures, are likely to be required
for many proposals to ensure that development meets this principle.
Consideration must be given to the likely timing of infrastructure provision. As such, development may need to be phased either spatially or in time to ensure the provision of infrastructure in a
timely manner. Conditions or a planning obligation may be used to secure this phasing
arrangement.