Sites Consultation Prepared for Parish Council Public Meeting - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

TDC Local Plan Review Sites Consultation

Prepared for Parish Council Public Meeting Tuesday 6th December 2016

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Extra Consultation

• First Stage: December 2015 to February 2016.
• “Issues and Approaches” plus HELAA report

and other background documents.

• Resulted in massive public response.
• Caterham on the Hill PC found the reports

inaccurate, confusing and contentious.

• Specifically sought removal of TDC owned

sites from HELAA list.

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Sites Consultation until 30th December

• Main Report: Sites Consultation.
• More technical papers, including:
• Updated HELAA;
• Landscape Study;
• Ecology Assessment;
• Sustainability Appraisal;
• Green Belt Review;
• Other background reports.
• This presentation is limited to the main reports

and to the Caterham area.

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Updated HELAA

• HELAA “only a starting point”.
• Various TDC owned sites now ‘unavailable’
• r ‘unsuitable’, including Town End Car Park,

Caterham Community Centre and others.

• Two further sites are newly withdrawn, at

Hambledon Park and Tillingdown Copse.

• New additions to ‘deliverable’ or ‘developable’

sites, including Heath Road Allotments.

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TDC Sites Consultation – Caterham Area

Colour Codes: x

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Green Could be developed. Red Cannot be recommended. Yellow Needs further investigation.

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Heath Road Allotments (CAT 077)

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Sustainability Appraisal

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Green Belt Review

Part 2 report now published ‘Areas for Further Investigation’

Looks at about 50 GB areas across the District identified in earlier consultation.

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Green Belt Assessment Result

 Accepts that most of these make a valid contribution to GB.  That includes most of Caterham area GB land.  Three Caterham Green Belt areas still at risk:

• Site in Caterham Valley between

Longsdon Way and the by-pass;

• Small site between Ninehams

Road and Coulsdon Common;

• Queen’s Park area.

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What have I left out?

• Housing need / demand forecasts.
• Responses to earlier consultation.
• Employment Sites, Traveller Sites,

New or Extended Settlements.

• Detailed reports on Ecology, Landscape,

Sustainability, Green Belt.

• Infrastructure Plan - because there isn’t one.

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Issues

• Comments on individual sites.
• Confusion between findings from:
• HELAA;
• Landscape Study;
• Ecology Assessment;
• Sustainability Appraisal;
• Green Belt Review.
• No assessment of infrastructure constraints.
• No account taken of 2016 flooding.

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What happens next?

• Our Parish Councils are preparing responses.
• Will take account of feedback from meeting.
• All residents and businesses are urged to

submit responses by 30th December.

• Comments on individual sites easiest online.
• General comments easiest by email.
• Final round of consultation by TDC expected

in autumn 2017.

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