Object
Issues and Options Document
Representation ID: 34843
Received: 15/02/2018
Respondent: mr john surgett
Summary of future baseline states that any new developments have potential to lead to incremental changes in landscape and townscape character and quality in and around the district including inappropriate design and layout. This has totally been ignored by RDC who have granted outline planning approval for Malyons site in Hullbridge which indicated that the majority of the future dwellings being 3 storey in an area of mainly bungalows/chalet bungalows.
RDC have not assessed any of the alternatives in terms of major impacts & sustainability, we therefore have no confidence that this will change in the new Local Plan.
We feel that the majority of the indicated sites in Hullbridge/Rawreth area are Green Belt & are not sustainable for the following reasons:-
In connection with Landscape & Historic Environment the NPPF states that local Authority planning system should recognise that heritage assets are an irreplaceable resource and should preserve them in a manner appropriate to their significance. This was totally ignored for the proposed Malyons development which strides Hullbridge & Rawreth. As stated in the Archaeological Assessment for this proposed development the Local Authority's archaeological advisor at Essex County Council noted that the historic field boundaries within the site comprise undesignated heritage assets of local significance and recommended that the orientation and preservation of these historic boundaries should be encouraged within the detail of the development proposals, this does not appear to have been incorporated within the proposed scheme especially the Ward Boundary between Rawreth & Hullbridge.
The submitted Map A for the local Hullbridge area shows sites CFS006, CFS138, CFS149, CFS099, GY01 and GY02 but these are not located in Hullbridge Parish but are actually in Rawreth Parish and that part of CFS138 is already included in the approved Malyons site.