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Representation ID: 3974

Received: 19/09/2024

Respondent: Ditchingham Farms Partnership

Agent: Evolution Town Planning

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

The supporting text to the draft policy references an LVA submitted with the proposed allocation, without suggesting how the landscape impact of the proposal could actually be mitigated.

It is not clear what is meant by a 'gateway' means or if this is appropriate in this landscape context for a settlement of this size. The development is unlikely to be more than one house deep fronting the road and we maintain that this creates difficulty in creating a built gateway feature as the scope for development is limited.

We do not consider that a landscape buffer is appropriate, because the introduction of new landscaping itself would represent a significant change in this open landscape. Practically, the scope for landscaping is also very limited. Landscaping is likely to be the responsibility of, or in the control of, individual householders making it more difficult to maintain landscaping in the long term. On smaller sites small areas of landscaping will have less impact and be more prone to removal. The most recent addition to Broome (adjacent to allocation) to see that the landscape visual impacts are likely to be significant, with limited opportunities for landscaping to provide any meaningful ‘integration’.

Consider that the landscaping clause (necessary to make this allocation acceptable) will be ineffective and in the long term any solution will be likely to fail.