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Representation ID: 3187

Received: 01/03/2023

Respondent: Historic England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Part of this land lies within the Seething Conservation Area or adjacent to the Conservation Area. There are two grade II listed buildings opposite. Therefore, any development of these sites has the potential to impact upon the significance of these heritage assets.
We note that HIAs have been completed for two of these sites which identified moderate impacts on the historic environment. A number of helpful mitigation measures were proposed in the HIAs but it is not clear how these recommendations will be carried forward into the Plan as there is no policy for the settlement limit amendments. We therefore have concerns that the potential impacts on the historic environment will not be properly addressed.
Finally, we suggest that an HIA should be prepared for site SN0588SL.
Notwithstanding this, we have some reservations about the approach to the extension of settlement limits because it is unclear how site-specific policy requirements e.g. mitigation measures recommended in an HIA, can be secured in the absence of a site-specific policy.