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Object

Representation ID: 5274

Received: 05/03/2015

Respondent: New Anglia LEP for Norfolk and Suffolk

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

CS15 encourages early education facilities to be located within/adjacent to district/local centres or co-located with schools, which is supported. However, Policy DM21 protects district and local centres for retail uses. Community facilities have significant value on high streets. They include early education (Appendix 4), but the criteria in DM21 set the bar too high. 'Prominent positions' (part (i)) is difficult to define and therefore ineffective. The required marketing strategy (Part (ii)) will restrict the County Council's ability to provide new early years facilities. Paragraph f. regarding accessibility is difficult to achieve when facilities are aimed at specific age groups.