Monitoring

The development is unsustainable and the number of people and houses will be an even bigger burden on our health facilities.
The development needs to be abandoned, as no developer is going to have the funds require to facilitate the wealth fare system required.

The NHS and in particular Colchester general hospital is already at breaking point and the envisaged demands placed on it by the influx of another 18 thousand plus people is unstainable.
Unless the development is going to have its own hospital current services will only be made worse.

As examples, I will concentrate my comments on para 9 and para 6 of the Monitoring List, although a similar process should be applied to all the paras listed in the DPD:

- as currently stated in para 9 the conservation of historic and cultural heritage is to be recorded only if Grade1 and 11+ buildings ,nationally important assets ,and assets on the Colchester Local List are lost.The list must clearly be expanded to include harm as well as loss and, to those assets from the Tendring and Essex County Council lists . For example, the ECC list includes the protected lane that is Turnip Lodge Lane. As defined by the National Planning Policy Framework loss or harm to all designated or non-designated assets and their settings should be recorded and importantly avoided wherever possible.
The Councils should list all these assets and set a target of retaining all (as the list is small) and they should also commit to take all reasonable steps to minimise the detrimental effect on those assets whose setting is affected

- as the DPD has emphasised the importance of the current existing green infrastructure within the GC area, para 6 should set targets for a high percentage of existing hedgerows to be retained; similarly targets should be set for the percentage of existing trees to be retained and; the proclaimed “quiet lanes” should be stated to be retained. Separate green percentage area targets should be identified for the GC overall, for each of the housing development areas, and for the percentage of their accessibility by all.

Monitoring is a powerful tool in assessing the effectiveness of this DPD if the target for every important parameter (that can positively differentiate the outcome of this GC from previous housing developments)is numerically specified from the outset. Only a proportion of the relevant parameters are listed in this DPD and there are no numerically specified targets. The latter is important to inform the Inspector of the expectation for the GC and can later be used by the Councils in their controls to achieve successful outcomes throughout the delivery process. This Monitoring plan as currently stated is not a sound approach.