Object

Representation ID: 25596

Received: 07/03/2019

Respondent: Department for Education (DfE)

The DfE encourages close working with local authorities during all stages of planning policy development to help guide the development of new school infrastructure and to meet the predicted demand for school places. Please add the DFE to your list of relevant organisations which you engage with in plan preparation.

Object

Representation ID: 25650

Received: 08/03/2019

Respondent: Grainger Plc

A series of Statements of Common Ground have been prepared by the Ipswich Strategic Planning Area (ISPA). It is clear that housing land supply has already fallen and that no attempts to remedy the shortfall within the early years of the plan across the ISPA have been made. Ipswich Borough and Suffolk Coastal have not worked collaboratively to resolve Ipswich's unmet housing delivery need to find more sites in the early years of the Plan Period. Both Councils have failed in their duty to cooperate and both Plans are not legally complaint and contrary to paragraph 26 of the NPPF.

Object

Representation ID: 25841

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: Ravenswood Environmental Group

The Statement of Common Ground in relation to Strategic Cross Boundary Planning Matters is weak. Given that Ipswich cannot meet its own development needs it is of some concern that a closer working arrangement has not been created. Ipswich is an important sub regional centre. The other two similar centres in the region are Norwich and Cambridge. Norwich City is planned as part of the Greater Norwich Local Plan. Cambridge is planned with South Cambridgeshire as Greater Cambridgeshire but Ipswich is not coordinating its growth on the same statutory basis. Consideration must be given to a joint Local Plan.

Support

Representation ID: 25912

Received: 20/03/2019

Respondent: Pigeon Investment Management Ltd

Pigeon are supportive of the fact that a working draft Statement of Common Ground
(November 2018) has also been published alongside the Ipswich Local Plan Review. This sets out that one of the strategic cross-boundary matters to be addressed is 'agreeing the approach to the delivery of the housing requirement'. It adds that 'throughout the plan-making process should any authority identify that their overall land supply falls below that required to meet the housing need, further co-operation will be required across the ISPA to identify potential solutions to inform distribution across the ISPA'.

Support

Representation ID: 26042

Received: 13/03/2019

Respondent: Sproughton Parish Council

The Parish notes that the Council (IBC) is working closely with Babergh/Mid Suffolk and Suffolk Coastal. The Parish Council considers it is important that you continue to work closely with them due to the fact that this village is only just outside of Ipswich and any significant decisions made will have a huge impact on this community.