Object
Proposed Housing and Mixed-Use Site Allocations
Representation ID: 2821
Received: 10/08/2025
Respondent: Dr Ray Butler
I think this area of countryside is already being destroyed, so it’s too late!
Comment
Proposed Housing and Mixed-Use Site Allocations
Representation ID: 2878
Received: 12/08/2025
Respondent: Natural England
Natural England is concerned that the site includes Grade 1 BMV land and would require evidence to justify this allocation.
Comment
Proposed Housing and Mixed-Use Site Allocations
Representation ID: 3469
Received: 27/08/2025
Respondent: Environment Agency
We support Principle K regarding waste water treatgment capacity. The Water Cycle Study should be used to inform Phasing so that capacity is available in time to serve the development.
Object
Proposed Housing and Mixed-Use Site Allocations
Representation ID: 3655
Received: 28/08/2025
Respondent: Mr roland bolton
See objection to Phase 2
While parts of phase 2 are under construction under two consents for a total of 448 homes there remains the limit on the number of homes that maybe occupied until the improvements to the A1 are completed. There is also the need for the coordination of landowners and developers. The allowing for submission of further outline applications first completions maybe expected in 2036 leaving a 6 ½ year build out at 108 dwellings (for both phases) delivering some 648 homes completed suggesting a potential shortfall of 458 homes.
Comment
Proposed Housing and Mixed-Use Site Allocations
Representation ID: 3831
Received: 13/08/2025
Respondent: Sport England
Rectory Farm (Phase 3)
The proposed changes to this policy do not address Sport England’s previous comments on this policy. This policy should be amended as sets out in our previous comments to ensure that the development contributes to meeting the demand generated for sporting provision.
Comment
Proposed Housing and Mixed-Use Site Allocations
Representation ID: 4286
Received: 27/08/2025
Respondent: Upper Witham Internal Drainage Board
The site is not within the Upper Witham Internal Drainage Board district. The surface water discharge from the northern part of this site is thought to flow via riparian watercourses adjacent to the railway. It is essential that provision is put in place to ensure this watercourse is protected and maintained in the future to an appropriate standard to provide ‘security of discharge’ for the northern area of the proposed site.
Comment
Proposed Housing and Mixed-Use Site Allocations
Representation ID: 4419
Received: 19/08/2025
Respondent: Forestry Commission
Several of the proposed allocated sites are either adjacent to or have mixed deciduous woodland on site.
In particular: SKPR-323, SKPR-278, SKPR-280, SKPR-279, SKPR-278 and SKPR-247.
Recognized under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan as being the most threatened, requiring conservation action.
These are already small, fragmented woodlands which without careful mitigation could be affected by neighbouring developments.
Careful consideration should be given to these woodlands, including how they can be protected and enhanced, with improvements to habitat connectivity.
Paragraph 187b of the NPPF (December 2024) states:
“Planning policies and decisions should contribute to and enhance the natural environment recognising the intrinsic character and beauty of the countryside, and the wider benefits from natural capital and ecosystem services – including the economic and other benefits of the best and most versatile agricultural land, and of trees and woodland.”
Consider specifying the protection of priority habitats such as mixed deciduous woodland.
The Forestry Commission encourages local authorities to consider the role of trees in delivering planning objectives as part of a wider integrated landscape approach.
•Promoting the use of home grown timber used in construction as a sustainable building material, therefore reducing the embodied carbon emissions of new builds.
Comment
Proposed Housing and Mixed-Use Site Allocations
Representation ID: 4566
Received: 26/08/2025
Respondent: Hanbury Properties Ltd
Agent: Harris Lamb
note the continued inclusion of the proposed allocation at Rectory Farm (SKPR-279 and SKPR-280). We understand that the continued development of this site is subject to highway improvement works on the A1 which to date have currently resulted in a delay to the site coming forward.
We consider there are potential issues with sites identified for allocation, whereas our client’s site (SKPR-234) offers a readily available alternative in a suitable location, with a willing landowner and the site is clearly developable and deliverable.
Comment
Proposed Housing and Mixed-Use Site Allocations
Representation ID: 4580
Received: 27/08/2025
Respondent: Anglian Water
AWS comments for the Garden Village equally apply to: Rectory Farm (Phase 3), including part k. of the policy regarding WRC capacity.
AWS welcomes the requirement to demonstrate ‘wastewater treatment works’ (WRC) capacity. For the residential elements of the Garden Village, if it is developed later in the Plan period then the Policy will need a requirement that developers must demonstrate in liaison with AWS and confirmed by the Environment Agency that additional WRC capacity has been provided. If that capacity has not been provided a condition may be required that homes which would result in exceedance of permitted flow limits at the Marston WRC cannot be occupied until that capacity is demonstrably available and would not increase the risk of harm to the water environment.