Policy DM7 - Local List
Object
Development Management Submission Document
Representation ID: 32706
Received: 13/07/2013
Respondent: Ms G Yeadell
Legally compliant? No
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Residents have no faith in reintroduction of RDC Local List:-
1. It was unilaterally abolished by RDC to enable demolition of a centrally distinctive historic building in 2004, which, inconveniently for planners/developers, was on the Local List. We were told that government "now frowns on Local Lists", of which dictate other Local authorities had not heard and had no plans to abolish theirs. No sooner was the said building demolished than we learned from RDC "government now approves of Local Lists" and proposals for its reintroduction were set in train.
2. Local Lists idea seems to have no reliable basis in law, owners merely being "encouraged" not to demolish.
3. Consultation document prior to reintroduction proposed removing most items from the former List to be found in Hockley, Hawkwell, Ashingdon - this fits too nicely with their incorporation into 'South Essex Coastal Towns', Figure 3 of Green Belt and Countryside chapter of this document, with creeping urbanisation and conurbation of said settlements.
Paragraph 2.54 to 2.56, Policy DM7
Residents have no faith in reintroduction of RDC Local List:-
1. It was unilaterally abolished by RDC to enable demolition of a centrally distinctive historic building in 2004, which, inconveniently for planners/developers, was on the Local List. We were told that government "now frowns on Local Lists", of which dictate other Local authorities had not heard and had no plans to abolish theirs. No sooner was the said building demolished than we learned from RDC "government now approves of Local Lists" and proposals for its reintroduction were set in train.
2. Local Lists idea seems to have no reliable basis in law, owners merely being "encouraged" not to demolish.
3. Consultation document prior to reintroduction proposed removing most items from the former List to be found in Hockley, Hawkwell, Ashingdon - this fits too nicely with their incorporation into 'South Essex Coastal Towns', Figure 3 of Green Belt and Countryside chapter of this document, with creeping urbanisation and conurbation of said settlements.
Support
Development Management Submission Document
Representation ID: 32741
Received: 17/07/2013
Respondent: ECC
This policy is satisfactory and should prove a useful conservation tool.
This policy is satisfactory and should prove a useful conservation tool.