Regulation 19 - Proposed Draft Local Plan Submission

Object

Representation ID: 14069

Received: 27/03/2025

Respondent: Leicestershire County Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Paras 1.12-1.13: Under the Minerals and Waste development heading, there is no acknowledgement that minerals and waste safeguarding is important in the assessment, allocation and consideration of sites which is the responsibility of all local authorities, not just County Council (see LCC’s response to the Reg.18 (Section 6 – Duty to Cooperate and Effective Joint Working).

Support

Representation ID: 14070

Received: 27/03/2025

Respondent: Leicestershire County Council

The Statement in 1.10 that Neighbourhood Plans have been wholeheartedly embraced is agreed with. We welcome the inclusion of a section for NP at the end and section 1.15 which helps groups in using and understanding the LP specifically in relation to their work.

Object

Representation ID: 14071

Received: 27/03/2025

Respondent: Leicestershire County Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

It is suggested that a statement may be required to capture need for highways links to any new schools. The approach will be that all highways’ requirements are looked at during the initial masterplan design and planning process and that any additional highways infrastructure required to ensure safe crossing of access of the school is allowed for and planned for at the point that the highway plan is developed as part of the wider scheme. Therefore, all infrastructure is planned for in advance, with no retrospective plans or modification to the highway required. Any additional adaptations required to the highway to suit the needs of safe access and crossing to the school is to be met by the developer, not school construction costs.

Object

Representation ID: 14073

Received: 27/03/2025

Respondent: Leicestershire County Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Re: Tackling climate change and enhancing the natural environment:
No specific reference has been made to the circular economy in the tackling climate change objective and this is a missed opportunity.
PPG for Waste states it is the responsibility of all planning authorities, not merely the Waste Planning Authority, to contribute to driving waste up the waste hierarchy and should be referred to in the above objective.

'Retaining and celebrating our heirtage and rural character' objective could include reference to Harborough's tourism offer.

Object

Representation ID: 14078

Received: 27/03/2025

Respondent: Leicestershire County Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

- The scale of proposed housing provision accords with the Leicester and Leicestershire Statement of Common Ground on Housing and Employment Needs (June 2022).
- For the subsequent round of plan-making when the new Standard Method will apply an increase in the scale of housing provision with associated essential strategic infrastructure is highly likely to be required, the lead-in time for which mean indicative requirements for strategic infrastructure ideally need to be indicated within this emerging Local Plan.
- Identification of strategic clusters is supported.
- The role of Lutterworth (an area of managed growth in the Strategic Growth Plan) is not as strong as anticipated.

Object

Representation ID: 14079

Received: 27/03/2025

Respondent: Leicestershire County Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Within paragraph 4.7 there is potential for a hook into the Strategic Growth Plan with reference to Leicester as the ‘central city’ (i.e. providing commercial and cultural opportunities, jobs and services).

Support

Representation ID: 14081

Received: 27/03/2025

Respondent: Leicestershire County Council

- DS03 1 d) Wording needs amending to Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
- Also, on 19 Feb the government released new guidance on the role of LNRS in planning.
- LCC does not currently have plans to build further waste infrastructure in the county. It is not possible to know the future impact on capacity at the RHWS sites and considerations of future changes would always need to be taken into account. However, at the appropriate time there would be a subsequent need for LCC and the council to work effectively together to manage the future need for additional waste infrastructure.

Support

Representation ID: 14082

Received: 27/03/2025

Respondent: Leicestershire County Council

Alongside landscape character types and area and heritage assets, it would perhaps useful to also include a map of Green Wedge designations.

Support

Representation ID: 14085

Received: 27/03/2025

Respondent: Leicestershire County Council

- DS05 part 4 a): It should be noted that this issue is to be covered through the Highways or safer school travel or equivalent. This is not an educational responsibility. We wish to emphasise the need for access to schools to be part of the wider development plan or consideration for adaptions required with costs associated by the relevant team during the initial stages of planning.
- Specific mention could be made of improvements to waste infrastructure where required.
- Opportunity to mention climate resilient specification of green space/planting and aftercare of green space to ensure continued provision of the listed benefits.
- LCC is waste disposal authority and provides Recycling and Household Waste Site capacity.

Support

Representation ID: 14086

Received: 27/03/2025

Respondent: Leicestershire County Council

Bullet point 3: Replace word 'hotspots' with 'areas'.