There Are a Number of Ways to Respond to This Consultation
South Downs Local Plan
Preferred Options Consultation
The consultation on the Draft Local Plan (known as the Preferred Options) will run from 02 September 2015 to 28 October 2015 (23.59 hours). The document and supporting information can be viewed on our website at
There are a number of ways to respond to this consultation:
1. Comment on the document on the internet using our online consultation website at (recommended)
2. Complete this form on your computer and email to us at
3. Print this form and post to us at:
Planning Policy, South Downs Centre, North Street, Midhurst, West Sussex. GU29 9DH.
How to use this form?
Please complete Part A in full. Please note that anonymous comments cannot be accepted.
Please complete Part B overleaf, using a new form for each chapter or policy you would like to comment on. Please identify which section of the document or policy your comment relates to on this part of the form. If you have comments on the Sustainability Appraisal of the Local Plan (Preferred Options)or Habitats Regulations Assessment of the Local Plan (Preferred Options) please use Part C.
For more information, or if you need assistance completing this form, please contact the Planning Policy Team by email at or telephone 01730 814810
PART A
Your Details / Agent Details (if applicable)Full Name / Twyford Parish Council
Address / c/o Elizabeth Billingham
Clerk to Twyford Parish Council
7 Chapel Road, Swanmore
SO32 2QA
Postcode / SO21
Email /
Telephone / 07443 598464
Organisation (if applicable) / Twyford Parish Council
Position (if applicable) / Clerk to Twyford Parish Council
Office Use Only
Are the views expressed on this consultation an official response from the organisation you represent or your own personal views? / Personal View / Received
Official Response / Logged
Reference
Please can you also indicate below whether you would like to be notified at the above address of the following:
- the submission of the local plan for independent examination under section 20 of the Act,
- the publication of the recommendations of the person appointed to carry out an independent examination of the local plan under section 20 of the Act, and
- the adoption of the local plan.
PART B
Please use a separateform for each chapter or policy you would like to comment on.
Please note that anonymous comments cannot be accepted and Part A of this form must be completed at least once and sent with your comments.
To which part of the document does your comment relate?
Chapter / Chapter 7 / and/or / Policy / SD28 / or / Paragraph,
Table or Figure / Employment and Land
Do you support, object or wish to make comments on this section of the Local Plan?
Support / ObjectSupport with changes / Comment
Please give details for your support or opposition or make comments:
As well as allocating a small amount of extra land for B1a and b (offices) and B1c/B8 (workshops and storage), none of which is in Twyford, this policy firstly accepts the change of use from manufacturing to offices and warehousing and secondly the safeguarding of all existing employment sites. Their loss to other uses is only to follow extensive marketing.
Twyford has a large number of businesses as well as the large employment area at Northfields Farm/Hazeley Enterprise Park which contains, the feed mill, warehousing vehicle parking, office and manufacture and retail and for which there is an extant planning permission for additional business space, and no demonstrated need for further
In Twyford, this policy would affect a significant number of business premises.
It is supported but should be clearer if it were to refer to “commercial and employment sites”, since the focus of NPPF is on economic development, not merely the generation of employment.
. There is however no policy which deals with the redevelopment of established firms and the expansion of buildings and/or sites for established firms. The policy of the Winchester Core Strategy favoured this plan but was not focussed on the National Park. A better approach would be to allow expansion only for those firms which both need to be in the SDNP and meet the criteria of supporting the objectives of the SDNP . Both expansion and redevelopment need to offer multiple benefits to the SDNP of which landscape and design improvements would certainly be two.
Expansion and redevelopment also need to take account of alternative opportunities outside the National park; in Twyford’s case these are plentiful in Winchester and the PUSH area adjoining
It should also be clear that this |Neighbourhood plans should be able to draft policies to meet their own circumstances, without being overridden by the Local Plan Policy.
(continue on a separate sheet if necessary)
What improvements or changes would you suggest?
•Include “Commercial and…” in title of policy
•Add further policy dealing with redevelopment and expansion of existing sites subject to criteria as suggested in TPC comments on SD 27
•Add a further criterion along the lines of SD27 1 a) to all redevelopment and expansion,
(continue on a separate sheet if necessary)
Declaration
I understand that these comments:
- will be consider by the South Downs National Park Authority as part of the consultation
- will be made publicly available on the South Downs National Park Authority website.
- may be identifiable by name and organisation provided.
Name (print) / Elizabeth Billingham - Clerk to Twyford Parish Council
Date / 27th October 2015
PART C
The Local Plan (Preferred Options)Sustainability Appraisal (SA) and Habitat Regulations Assessments (HRA) can be viewed on our website at can be made to the three questions set out in the Non-Technical Summary and at the end of chapter 11 of the SA.
Please note that anonymous comments cannot be accepted and Part A of this form must be completed at least once and sent with your comments.
Comments on the Sustainability Appraisal
To which part of the document does your comment relate?
Chapter / Paragraph,Table or Figure
Please give details of your comments on the Sustainability Appraisal:
(continue on a separate sheet if necessary)
Comments on the Habitat Regulations Assessment
To which part of the document does your comment relate?
Chapter / Paragraph,Table or Figure
Please give details of your comments on the Habitat Regulations Assessment:
(continue on a separate sheet if necessary)
Declaration
I understand that these comments:
- will be consider by the South Downs National Park Authority as part of the consultation
- will be made publicly available on the South Downs National Park Authority website.
- may be identifiable by name and organisation provided.
Name (print) / Elizabeth Billingham - Clerk to Twyford PArish Council
Date / 27th October 2015