Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community Development Plan Document (DPD)

Object

Representation ID: 244

Received: 26/06/2023

Respondent: Wivenhoe Town Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

To comply with Policy SP6.1 of Local Plan, DPD needs to give details of Route 1 (RTS).
Conflicting infromation on position of RTS stops.
Uncertainty of RTS line to Employment Areas.
Clarification needed on ‘Express route’ to north station and location of park and choose.
No clearly defined start date for RTS
Active travel comprised if sport pitches other side of A133 and link road being a through route.

Object

Representation ID: 245

Received: 26/06/2023

Respondent: Wivenhoe Town Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Colchester’s roads have no spare capacity, already suffer from chronic congestion and gridlock are an everyday event.
DPD is unambitious re public transport
DPD heavily dependent on Active Travel. Cyclingto and from Colchester along A133 is not attractive proposition. Greenstead roundabout is lethal.
City Centre is not cycle friendly.
DPD active travel modal shift for longer journeys are very unambitious at 10%. Multi modal journeys overlooked.
Walking and cycling to RTS stops will be easy enough but RTS will take 25 minutes to Colchester North, unlikely to be popular option for long distance journeys.

Object

Representation ID: 246

Received: 26/06/2023

Respondent: Wivenhoe Town Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Disappointed this chapter is not driven by bespoke design code.
Lacks ambition of setting high standards of envrionmentally sound building conditions
Too much reliance that developer would choose to build at a higher spec than already set by legislation
No caveat to conform to future new policy or locally set standards through project lifetime
All power generated should come from green energy. Opportunity to focus on climate emergency.

Object

Representation ID: 247

Received: 26/06/2023

Respondent: Wivenhoe Town Council

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

We would like this chapter to include what would happen if the modal shift targets were not achieved. For instance - suspending all future building on site until modal shift targets were met.
Deeply concerned with viability work to date. Doubt would have passed section one hearings in current financial climate.
Refer Inspector to submission by William Sunnucks as we fully support the work on viability assessment.
We do not believe the project is currently viable.