Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan

Object

Representation ID: 2588

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Gonerby Hill Foot Community Group

Response to 11.14 to 11.16 Open Space, Sport and Recreation. reference SKPR-57
“The National Planning Policy Framework states policies should be based… up-to-date assessments of the need for open space”. There is no trace of this assessment being carried out that we can find.

Object

Representation ID: 2589

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Gonerby Hill Foot Community Group

Response to 11.17 to 11.20 Local Open Space Policy Context reference SKPR-57

11.20 states… “These open spaces have not been duplicated as part of this policy, as they have their own protection through the Neighbourhood Plan in which they are designated.” The residents of GHF have not had a Parish Council (Town Council) for decades and so the opportunity to protect local areas via a Neighbourhood Plan has been denied to the residents.

This inability to create a Neighbourhood Plan and protect Grantham’s open countryside leaves SKDC open to the question of fairness and equality compared to the lesser allocated areas such as Bourne, Stamford and the Deepings.

Object

Representation ID: 2590

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Gonerby Hill Foot Community Group

Response to GR1: Protecting and Enhancing the Setting of Belton House and Park. reference SKPR-57

The park setting will be impacted by site SKPR-57 as the majority of the builds will be above the built on the ridge way and slopes facing Belton House and visible from the park, Belmount Tower and the town.

Some of the allocated site is also visible from Belton House roof. The all important approach to the estate will be heavily impacted. This contradicts the SKDC policy (2010) to protect Belton.

SKDC carried out a comprehensive study into the house and park setting. This laid out clear protections for the Grade 1 listed estate. The findings of the study were adopted by the council in 2010. The study states this policy is particularly important in view of the then growth point status.

Object

Representation ID: 2591

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Gonerby Hill Foot Community Group

Response to GR3: Grantham Allocations. reference SKPR-57

We are aware of various other developments which are intended to be built in and around Belton Lane and the village of Great Gonerby. It is vital for the already overdeveloped north of Grantham that SKDC planning listen to local people and developers in order to ensure the area is developed in a controlled and sustainable manner.

Object

Representation ID: 2593

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Gonerby Hill Foot Community Group

Response to ID2: Transport and Strategic Transport Infrastructure reference SKPR-57
Point a) says located where travel can be minimized. Site allocation SKPR-57 is some distance from the town centre and will involve vehicular use. The vast majority of the residents would not be prepared to walk or travel from that distance away. The allocated site is not built within Grantham’s boundaries, but is a rural allocation some distance from local facilities and the town centre.
Point e) “Do not severely impact on the safety and movement of traffic on the highway network… provision of new or improved highway infrastructure”. Lincolnshire County Council Highways has already stated in the site assessment survey that this “Overall mitigation required probably too great for site”. It is inconceivable that planners would ignore such a clear signal from LCC that this site is not appropriate, and the infrastructure required would be too great an ask.

Object

Representation ID: 2596

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Gonerby Hill Foot Community Group

Number of people: 1113

Petition containing details of 1,113 residents who strongly object to this plan.

We believe the site is unsuitable to be considered for housing and request that South Kesteven District Council listen to our objections and remove this site from the local plan. With so much green space disappearing in north Grantham we will find ourselves with almost no green space available for recreation, exercise and our mental health.
The plan is fundamentally unsound as there has been insufficient community consultation, and the authority has failed to properly consider its environmental, social and economic effects. It will undoubtedly have a permanent and detrimental impact on the area’s landscape, griculture,
infrastructure, highways, heritage and biodiversity. When considering Grantham’s future growth the social, environmental and economic wellbeing of the town and its residents must be paramount. We believe that the devastating impact of this proposal makes it unsound and contrary to the council’s community strategy.

Issues with SKPR-57 include:-
- Access to the site. Almost impossible.
- Gonerby Hill Foot estate roads would struggle to cope.
- Lincolnshire County Council referring to the required Highway Network saying “Overall mitigation probably too great for site”.
- The landscape character assessment saying “maintain a varied urban edge with fringes of countryside extending in to the town”. “Avoid built development encroaching on the higher scarp slopes”.
- Local plan development principles. No development to occur above the 60m contour. The site is almost all above it.
- The top section of development will be visible from Belton House NT.
- The main approach to Belton House will lose its rural feel.
- Belton Lane will not be able to cope and there will be an increase in pollution in Grantham due to congestion.