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Analysis of AWVC Planning Committee’s Chairperson to Letter of 1 October 2018
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AWVC Email Comments

Dear Mr Comer,
Thank you for your email. Jenny Forbes has seen Not prepared to meet and discuss. Great for an
your correspondence and has the following elected representative. Will be different when it’s
comments: election time!
I do not accept that the NP is invalid, or that it Were Ms Forbes comments agreed by other
contains errors. In preparing the Plan, we were members of the Planning Committee
advised and guided by an independent
Consultant as well as the officers at MSDC.

The draft Plan and supporting documents went Does not justify figures—focuses on process
through consultations with statutory consultees
and residents and were examined by an
Independent Examiner, who also visited the sites
mentioned in the Plan.

The site assessment process and Sustainability
Appraisal followed the appropriate
methodology.

The Plan complies with all the legal requirements
set out in the Localism Act 2011.
The supporting documents cannot be re-written, This implies that Ms Forbes accepts the
as they form the background documents to the calculations are incorrect.
Plan.

Amendment of the Plan itself would involve
more consultations, another Examination and Why so----
another Referendum.
With regard to density, the Wealden House site Where is this recorded?
was assessed by MSDC (prior to the
Neighbourhood Plan) as a site with a potential Mr King says he had no input into the AWNP
for flatted developments at a density of 50-100
dwellings per hectare

This was taken into account during the site
assessment process.

Then whoever does it needs to be Tommy
The developers will have to show that their Cooper or Dynamo.
proposal makes efficient use of land (as required
by the NPPF) but also that it does this without
compromising the character of the area.

But expect this to be overruled by MSDC based
The Village Council has already responded to on the AWNP
their planning application and objected to it in
detail.