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Proposed Submission Site Allocations and Policies (incorporating IP-One Area Action Plan) Development Plan Document
Representation ID: 5238
Received: 05/03/2015
Respondent: Associated British Ports
Agent: Associated British Ports
ABP is content with the wording in Policy SP9 as it relates to Site IP037 that the development layout should not prejudice future provision of a Wet Dock Crossing, provided that this does not ignore that the critical challenge to realising successful redevelopment of the Island Site will be viability (which is recognised at paragraph 2.11 as one of the more detailed issues emerging from the evidence which this plan needs to address).
Redevelopment of Site IP037 - Island Site will most likely require road access from the West, via Mather Way, from the North via Bridge Street and St. Peters Quay and a pedestrian and cycle connection across the Wet Dock lock gates to connect to the town centre and the surrounding area.
These access improvements do not require the provision of a Wet Dock Crossing and, in our opinion, the Wet Dock Crossing is not required to deliver future development in the Waterfront area and the Core Strategy Growth.
Nevertheless, ABP is aware that the Wet Dock Crossing has been a longstanding aspiration of IBC to provide for through traffic and potentially provide relief from town centre traffic congestion (particularly on the Star Lane Gyratory). ABP is content, therefore with the wording in Policy SP9 that the development layout should not prejudice future provision of a Wet Dock Crossing, provided that this does not ignore that the critical challenge to realising successful redevelopment of the Island Site will be viability (which is recognized at paragraph 2.11 as one of the more detailed issues emerging from the evidence which this plan needs to address).