Inspector's Preliminary Findings on HBC Development Management Plan (ID/9)

Object

Representation ID: 9719

Received: 26/03/2015

The DMP is positively prepared, justified, effective and consistent with national policy and it is sound without MM8. The Council has reconciled competing sustainability objectives of meeting important local needs for housing and to deliver wider environmental benefits, whilst providing open space at the southern end of the former housing allocation. The SA into MM8 clearly shows the Modification has a neutral impact and therefore cannot make an unsound plan sound. The Inspector has been misinformed about the extent of public access onto CV01 and that there is no opportunity to deliver open space on CV01 without the landowner's co-operation.