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Help Guide for Babergh Consultation Forms for 3/59 & 6/5

This Guide will help you complete your Objection Forms. The notes are important, please read them.

Forms must be with Babergh District Council by 5pm on 1st March 2006. Only use the Babergh Consultation form. Return it early and Babergh will try and contact you to get any errors corrected. Help or advice is available from Sue Dawes at Babergh on 01473 825872.
For further information and the latest Campaign News visit this website, www.cornard.info, frequently.

Everyone of Voting Age in your household should submit an Objection Form – EVERY FORM COUNTS

Print a copy of the Consultation Forms. You can make as many copies as you need.
Forms can also be downloaded or filled in On-Line at www.babergh-south-suffolk.gov.uk 
 

Carsons Drive Development - 3/59
On the first page of the form: Complete Name, Address & other contact details & Delete ‘Supporting’ where indicated.

On the second page of the form: In the reasons section you must include at least one valid reason to Object.

Valid Reasons for Objecting in bold:
Traffic congestion on minor road

– Highways Authority forecast 1570 additional vehicle movements a day from this development.

Sewage infrastructure inadequate

– This has been confirmed by Anglian Water.

Road improvements will be costly and lead to ‘unacceptable urbanisation’ of the C732 road

- (Gt. Cornard to Cornard Tye) – As stated in the Highways Authority evidence.

Site is visually intrusive and will dominate surrounding housing

– Two storey (c.7metre) houses on higher ground and two & a half storey (c.10 metre) houses on other parts of the site.

Size of development will cause local services to be further overstretched

– For example Doctors, Dentists, etc.

Inappropriate removal of SLA status from this green-field site

– The Inspector considered that this farmland is more ‘urban’ than ‘countryside’.

Inappropriate choice of SLA boundary that does not follow accepted physical features

 – Usually river, road, or woodland.

No proper examination of alternative sites

– Seems an arbitrary substitution for the approved Shawlands Ave site without proper examination of all other possible sites.

Area is outside built-up area boundary and is therefore open countryside

– Development should conform to relevant policy protecting open countryside.

Destruction of heritage

– This site is depicted in two world famous Gainsborough paintings (Cornard Wood & Mrs. & Mrs. Andrews) and should be preserved for posterity.

Lack of sustainability

- The site is remote from town facilities, resulting in the heavy reliance on motor transport and adding to the 10,000 additional vehicle movements per day forecast to be generated by all the recently planned developments.

In the resolution section write: Removal of this development from the Local Plan.
Finally, Sign, Date & Send to Babergh. Babergh Notes for Guidance
 

Special Landscape Area – 6/5
Previous regulations required that the Special Landscape Areas (SLA’s) would be protected through strict control of development and that potential developers would have to prove the need for the development and that no alternative sites were available.

The new regulations allow new development to take place with far less restrictions than normal when building in open countryside.

On the first page of the SLA form:
Complete Name, Address & other contact details & Delete ‘Supporting’ where indicated.

On the second page of the SLA form:
In the reasons section write: Unacceptable re-wording, lowering & weakening of the SLA restrictions.
In the resolution section write: Re-instatement of original wording.
Finally, Sign, Date & Send to Babergh. Babergh Notes for Guidance

Send your completed OBJECTION Forms to:

Rich Cooke, Acting Head of Planning Policy & Economic Development, Babergh District Council, Corks Lane, Hadleigh, Suffolk. IP7 6SJ