Preferred Options Site Allocations and Policies (incorporating IP-One Area Action Plan) DPD Review

Support

Representation ID: 25804

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: AONB

The AONB team welcome the inclusion of the following objectives in the emerging Core Strategy & Site Allocations Review DPDS:

Objective 5 Opportunities shall be provided to improve strategic facilities in Ipswich by:
- Extending the strategic greenspace, ecological network and canopy cover

Support

Representation ID: 25805

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: AONB

Objective 6 To improve accessibility to and the convenience of all forms of transport and achieve significant modal shift from the car to more sustainable modes. This will: (a) promote choice and better health; (b) facilitate sustainable growth, development and regeneration; (c) improve integration, accessibility and connectivity; and (d) promote green infrastructure as alternative
'green' non-vehicular access around the town and urban greening of existing routes. Specifically:
- Comprehensive, integrated cycle routes should be provided; and
- Ipswich Borough Council aspires to an enhanced public transport system.

Support

Representation ID: 25806

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: AONB

Objective 7 - Enhanced flood protection including a tidal surge barrier to be in place to protect the town's existing and expanding communities from the threat of tidal flooding.

Support

Representation ID: 25807

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: AONB

Objective 8 -To protect and enhance high quality, accessible strategic and local open spaces rich in biodiversity and geodiversity for people to visit and use, and conserve and enhance the historic environment and landscape character of
Ipswich, including historic buildings, archaeology and townscape.

Support

Representation ID: 25808

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: AONB

Objective 11 -To improve air quality and create a safer, greener, more cohesive town.

Object

Representation ID: 25809

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: AONB

Futura Park lies within 200m of the boundary of the
Suffolk Coast & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and
is therefore considered to be within the setting of the nationally designated landscape. Whilst we acknowledge that much of this site is already built out and is physically separated from the AONB by the A1189, any future development applications, especially site IP141a should be supported by an assessment of impacts on the Natural Beauty of the AONB. This includes use as a Park and Ride site as indicated in para 4.4, of Policy SP9 (Safeguarding land for transport infrastructure).

Object

Representation ID: 25810

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: AONB

Any future development especially site IP141a should be supported by an assessment of impacts on the Natural Beauty of the AONB. This includes use as a Park and Ride site as indicated in para 4.4 of Policy SP9
The need for such an assessment should be reflected in any future site-specific policy for this site. The AONB team would be happy to discuss the scope of the AONB impact assessment at the appropriate stage of the planning process.

Support

Representation ID: 25811

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: AONB

The AONB team welcomes the requirement to assess the impact of developing this site on the Natural Beauty of the Suffolk Coast Heaths AONB. We would be happy to discuss the scope of an AONB impact assessment at the appropriate stage of the planning process for inclusion in the proposed Development Brief for this site.

Object

Representation ID: 25812

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: AONB

Sites IP150b - IP150e are being proposed for mixed use residential, leisure and employment developments. These sites sit wholly within the Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONB. The site sheets make no reference to this in the constraints section. They should be modified to reflect this.

Object

Representation ID: 25813

Received: 12/03/2019

Respondent: AONB

The relevant sections in the Site Allocations and Policies Review document (IP150b- SP7, IP150c - SP5, IP150d- SP2, & IP150e- SP2) and Policies
Review document should be amended to identify the need for a full assessment of impacts of the proposed development on the Natural Beauty and Special Qualities of the AONB. This is necessary to help inform mitigation needed to offset the worst impacts. The AONB team would be happy to discuss the scope of an AONB impact assessment at the appropriate stage of the planning process.