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Object

Representation ID: 5538

Received: 05/03/2015

Respondent: Mr Arwel Owen

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Policy DM31 should be a criteria led policy, consistent with the provisions of paragraph 113 of the NPPF. The NPPF requires policies which protect ecology and landscape designation to be criteria based. This ensures that proposals for development can be adequately, transparently and objectively assessed against policy. Policy DM31 offers no such opportunity. In order to be consistent with national policy, DM31 should be redrafted to provide a criteria-led policy approach.