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“There is a table in the Neighbourhood Plan that sets out the approximate capacity of

the allocated sites within the Parish. The site at Wealden House is listed in the policy
as having an approximate capacity of 50+.

However it is important to recognise that this table is not the planning policy.

Irrespective of the numbers that are set out in the table it remains the case that
developments must be assessed against the relevant polices in the DP and NP to
ascertain whether the design of the proposal is acceptable.”

Nothing has changed since then.

7. Although it is missing from the application now submitted, the applicant has previously
submitted on page 38 of the initial DM/19/1025 proposal a schematic designed to
demonstrate that “future development of the neighbouring (LIC) site will not be prejudiced
by the proposals” (original plan reproduced below). Policy ASW10 of the AWNP provides
that any new buildings proposed for the LIC site should “demonstrate that development can
be achieved without harmful impact on the amenity of the residents of Ashbourne House or
Carlton House”. Even a cursory glance at this plan shows how that amenity would be
drastically and negatively affected by development of the scale implied. We are well aware
that AHL have been in discussion with the owners of LIC and have ambitions to acquire and
develop that site as well. Approval of DM/19/1025 would open the door to gross over-
development of the LIC site as well. You said in your letter of 11 March 2019:-

“The Village Council is concerned by the plan…………………. which shows a number of
blocks of flats on the adjacent site (which is allocated for possible residential

development in the Neighbourhood Plan). If the applicant wishes to develop both
sites, then the Council would like to see a comprehensive proposal covering the

whole combined site.”

We invite you to consider the following hypothesis.

Were the applicants to be submitting a planning application for the LIC site along the lines
outlined in DM/19/1025 for EDF, then the extent of the overdevelopment of LIC compared
with the existing adjacent Ashbourne Park properties would be glaringly obvious. Double the
number of buildings and massively less green space on a similar sized plot.

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