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Representation ID: 5879

Received: 05/03/2015

Respondent: Mr Roy Bush

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

It is unsound to allocate the entire Northern Fringe when its delivery may not be viable over the plan timescales. To lower this risk the CS should include a plan based on co-operating more closely with neighbouring LAs to deliver homes growth. The CS cannot guarantee delivery of the Country Park in a timely manner and so demonstrate it will not adversely affect the integrity of a European designated habitat. For soundness, policy CS10 and Infrastructure Table 8B need to be revised. Allocating the entire Northern Fringe for immediate development through multi-site starts is a high risk strategy that will result in severe traffic congestion for both North Ipswich and the town centre and will damage the future attractiveness and prosperity of town. With so few new jobs being created in the town centre, residents will have to commute by car to jobs growth sites. The effectiveness of the Core Strategy to deliver the Ipswich Garden Suburb is doubtful without additional road improvements. In response to a planning application by Mersea Homes /CBRE Global Investors for the first phase of the Ipswich Garden Suburb, Suffolk County Council stated with regard to traffic '... the development has a severe impact on network performance and travel time.' IBC has been pinning their hopes on getting people out of their cars and onto public transport but with so few new jobs being created in the town centre, residents will mainly have to commute by car to jobs growth sites. The effectiveness of the Core Strategy to deliver the Ipswich Garden Suburb is doubtful without additional road improvements and capacity such as a northern bypass or link road. New measures will also be required to ensure air quality does not deteriorate.