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Object
Ipswich Borough Council Local Plan Site Allocations and Policies (incorporating IP-One Area Action Plan) DPD Review - Final Draft
Representation ID: 26433
Received: 02/03/2020
Respondent: AquiGen
Agent: AquiGen
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Consider sites should be removed from employment use allocation. After extensive marketing, no interest in Site 1 for B Class uses, despite designation within New Anglia Enterprise Zone. Site 1 has different townscape character due to proximity to residential properties, relationship with Ravenswood Centre and Nacton Road frontage. Could accommodate non B Class uses benefiting from road-side prominence and pedestrian accessibility - economic and social benefits for area. Plans for Site 3 have met B Class demands. Removal will not impact on employment land supply due to over allocation. If retained, changes needed to "Development constraints/issues" text. Current wording restrictive.
Remove employment allocation or change constraints/issues text as follows:
-Remove phrase "....and avoids utilitarian single volume warehousing" to ensure plan is sufficiently flexible and allows schemes to be justified on their own merits.
-Change text to: " Development along IP141a should explore the ability to address both Nacton Road and Crane Boulevard with active and/or positively designed frontage, and avoid being set back from the highway by extensive car parking to allow for greater street scene impact, unless this can be justified as an appropriate response" to provide flexibility and support delivery of site 1.