34 - DM34 Countryside (MOD 1)
Support
Core Strategy and Policies DPD Review - Pre-Submission of Main Modifications
Representation ID: 24248
Received: 23/11/2015
Respondent: New Anglia LEP for Norfolk and Suffolk
The County Council welcomes this amendment, which helps to protect the characteristics of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty from the impacts of development outside the designated area.
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Support
Core Strategy and Policies DPD Review - Pre-Submission of Main Modifications
Representation ID: 24261
Received: 23/11/2015
Respondent: Natural England
We agree with the amendment to clarify that the landscape and scenic beauty of the AONB should be conserved.
see attached.
Object
Core Strategy and Policies DPD Review - Pre-Submission of Main Modifications
Representation ID: 24313
Received: 21/12/2015
Respondent: Gladman Developments
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? Not specified
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Concerned that the policy creates a 'presumption against development' in many areas between the existing built-up settlement of Ipswich and the borough boundary.
The second part of the policy sets out that proposals for development in the countryside should, amongst other things, "maintain the separation between Ipswich and surrounding settlements". Gladman believe that policies which seek to protect gaps between settlements are not consistent with the Framework. Gaps between settlements can be protected under Green Belt policy (it being one of the main purposes) but not through restrictive blanket countryside policies.
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