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STEPS TOWARDS AN AGREED STATEMENT OF FACTS
And stipulations

2 The Integrated Development (Continued)
For example:

The Transport Statement (See paragraph 5.4) relies on the MSDC Local Plan of 2004
(and Policy T4 therein) in under-providing for parking spaces (93 instead of 144) and
ignores the applicable Neighbourhood Policy- ASW21. The Transport Statement Page | 6
dismisses the correct calculation - of 144 places - by again relying on the 2004 MSDC
Local Plan and policy T5. In fact, the MSDC Local Plan of 2004 carried no authority
[because the council was unable to demonstrate a five-year supply of deliverable
housing (NPPF §49)]. Thus, according to NPPF §14, ASW21 should prevail and
“indicated development should be restricted” to applications which allocated two
parking spaces per unit.

The supposed “golden thread” running through planning policy is a presumption that
sustainable development will be approved, subject to an objective assessment of need (OAN),
compliance with density, design, environmental standards local and national policies.
Counties and districts must have good reason for overruling Neighbourhood Plans, either in
favour of or against development. AWVC is opposed to the current application. MSDC
approved the AWNP’s OAN target of 60 new dwellings up to 2024 and its March 2018
District Plan states;

“3.32. There will be no necessity for the current generation of neighbourhood plans
to increase their housing numbers.”

Thus, there is no need (OAN) for the proposed development and even less for the
integrated plan.

The application breaches multiple AWNP policies on the protection of the WAONB, AFSSI
etc, the rural environment, sustainability, viability and especially preserving the distinctive
characteristics of the village. Perhaps the most obvious act of non-compliance relates to
MSDC’s pre-application recommendations for development of the EDF site based on a 2016
plan by Robert Davies John West Ltd for 90 dwellings:

Figure 3: 2016 Design (Consultation) Plan for the WH:EDF site by Robert Davies et al