Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community Development Plan Document (DPD)
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Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community Development Plan Document (DPD)
GC POLICY 1: LAND USES AND SPATIAL APPROACH
Representation ID: 266
Received: 28/06/2023
Respondent: East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT)
Agent: Lawson Planning Partnership
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? Not specified
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Healthcare facilities should be included in the vision.
Concerns that Policy 1 does not reflect Part 1 Policy SP6 and Colchester Core Strategy Policy SD3.
Requirement to include references to healthcare facilities when considering phasing at Crockleford Heath.
A request for additional clarification as to what is included within a Health Impact Assessment is sought.
Typo in Part 1 Part K.
Amend wording of Vision to include healthcare facilities. Suggested wording:
“The Garden Community will be known for its healthy and happy community. It will have a variety of diverse community spaces, play spaces, great local schools and a network of sport, leisure and health facilities. It will establish long term and participative stewardship of infrastructure from the outset.”
Amend text at Part A (first bullet point) to include reference to include healthcare provision. Suggested wording:
“Delivery of circa 7,500 new homes with a range of shops, jobs, services and community facilities, including education and healthcare provision (see Part B below).”
Amend wording in Part B to include reference to healthcare facilities. Suggested wording:
“Accessibility to services and facilities including health care, utilities infrastructure and the Rapid Transit System will be key to determining the phasing of development in the ‘Crockleford Neighbourhood’.”
Details around the quantitative assessment of impacts on existing and proposed facilities is required. "Appendix 4" should be "Appendix 3".
See attachment.
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Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community Development Plan Document (DPD)
GC POLICY 6: COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Representation ID: 267
Received: 28/06/2023
Respondent: East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT)
Agent: Lawson Planning Partnership
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? Not specified
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Concerns that the introductory paragraph of supporting text could place reliance on existing healthcare facilities over the plan period.
Concerns that secondary and acute healthcare is not specifically mentioned which does not highlight all healthcare needs.
Concern that the Policy does not fully consider off site facility provision.
Further flexibility is required around when the Health and Wellbeing Hub will be delivered and what it will contain.
Amendments to support text to clarify. Suggested wording:
“ensuring the Garden Community is served by community services and facilities of the right type in the right location, including healthcare, schools and sports facilities;’’ Remove text after this point.
Request to include secondary and acute healthcare provision. Suggested wording:
‘’Measures for increasing capacity in, and accessibility to, primary, secondary and acute healthcare – either through new infrastructure or the improvement, reconfiguration, extension, or relocation of existing medical facilities.”
A request is made to clarify the position of offsite provision. Suggested wording:
“The Garden Community will require all developments to provide for the on and off-site infrastructure necessary to support the development and mitigate its impacts. The Garden Community will deliver local community services and facilities …”
Wording changes to allow further flexibility and timings of Hub delivery and mechanism for this. See full representation.
See attachment.
