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Ipswich Borough Council Local Plan Site Allocations and Policies (incorporating IP-One Area Action Plan) DPD Review - Final Draft
Site Ref: IP141a (Policy SP5) Land at Futura Park, Nacton Road (formerly the Cranes Site)
Representation ID: 26433
Received: 02/03/2020
Respondent: AquiGen
Agent: AquiGen
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Consider sites should be removed from employment use allocation. After extensive marketing, no interest in Site 1 for B Class uses, despite designation within New Anglia Enterprise Zone. Site 1 has different townscape character due to proximity to residential properties, relationship with Ravenswood Centre and Nacton Road frontage. Could accommodate non B Class uses benefiting from road-side prominence and pedestrian accessibility - economic and social benefits for area. Plans for Site 3 have met B Class demands. Removal will not impact on employment land supply due to over allocation. If retained, changes needed to "Development constraints/issues" text. Current wording restrictive.
Remove employment allocation or change constraints/issues text as follows:
-Remove phrase "....and avoids utilitarian single volume warehousing" to ensure plan is sufficiently flexible and allows schemes to be justified on their own merits.
-Change text to: " Development along IP141a should explore the ability to address both Nacton Road and Crane Boulevard with active and/or positively designed frontage, and avoid being set back from the highway by extensive car parking to allow for greater street scene impact, unless this can be justified as an appropriate response" to provide flexibility and support delivery of site 1.
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Ipswich Borough Council Local Plan Site Allocations and Policies (incorporating IP-One Area Action Plan) DPD Review - Final Draft
Policy SP5 – Land Allocated for Employment Use
Representation ID: 26437
Received: 02/03/2020
Respondent: AquiGen
Agent: AquiGen
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Land allocated in Table 3 (28.34ha) is significantly in excess of calculated requirement from Evidence Base (23.2ha). The 5.14ha difference equates to 18% of the requirement. Such over provision can only be justified where there are clear reasons for a land supply buffer. No such evidence has been presented in the Plan or Evidence Base. Appropriate to consider reducing the land allocation to reflect actual need. Of the land allocated in Table 3, circa 24ha has been identified as being suitable for industrial uses. This is in significant excess of the 9ha need calculated by the Employment Land Needs Assessment.
Review land allocations in SP5 and change so they better reflect the actual need calculated in the Evidence Base.
