Proposed Submission Site Allocations and Policies (incorporating IP-One Area Action Plan) Development Plan Document

Object

Representation ID: 5517

Received: 05/03/2015

Respondent: RCP Parking Ltd

Agent: Mr Leslie Short

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

RCP parking Ltd considers that the whole approach to the control of parking in the central area and the future of provision of multi-storey car parks is entirely aspirational and not deliverable. Further, this policy ignores the very real contribution that sites such as those operated for a temporary period for short-stay parking (e.g. Handford Road, Princes Street, St Peters Warehouse site for example) make to the people working, shopping and undertaking leisure pursuits in Ipswich.

Object

Representation ID: 5527

Received: 05/03/2015

Respondent: RCP Parking Ltd

Agent: Mr Leslie Short

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

RCP Parking Ltd object to the delineated boundary of the central parking core as
shown on the proposals map and considered that it should be changed and extended
to include a number of sites which are making a very effective contribution towards
parking provision for the people of Ipswich and will do so and can do so for the
foreseeable future. In particular, the exclusion of sites:-
Duke Street on Orwell Quay
Princes Street
Hand ford Road East
Ranelagh Road,
St Peter's Warehouse site on Bridge Street
Should be included and the boundary adjusted accordingly.

Object

Representation ID: 5528

Received: 05/03/2015

Respondent: RCP Parking Ltd

Agent: Mr Leslie Short

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

RCP Parking Ltd support the allocation of their site in principle for residential purposes but the decision of when to develop/dispose should be part of their commercial strategy rather than the council is planning authority or a third party. The draft allocation indicates that has a short term delivery timescale but the company has not been consulted on its own business plans. Had it been so consulted it would have reaffirmed the need for flexibility and the certainty of interim beneficial uses such as shortstay car parking in a continuing difficult economic climate.