A new national system to produce Local Plans is being introduced by Government as part of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023. The Government states that the Act intends to create simpler and shorter plans that are quicker to produce and will publish additional guidance and legislation in the coming months that will set out in more detail how the new system will work.
CW&C Council Cabinet agreed on 10 January 2024 to commit to preparing a Local Plan under the new national system for plan-making and support the development of a borough-wide design code to eventually be incorporated into the new Local Plan or a supplementary plan.
Although the new system will not formally commence until late in 2024, the Planning Policy team has begun work on initial engagement and updating the evidence base to aid early vision and strategy development.
CW&C are pleased to be able to make some of our initial evidence base work available for comment, including:
- Employment Areas Survey
- Places Background Paper
- Land Availability Assessment and Call for sites (includes link to the online mapping tool and site submission form).
Documents relating to Tattenhall can be found online at https://consult.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/kse/event/37819/section/
For more information you can contact CW&C by Email: planningpolicy@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
The Land Availability Assessment includes a wide range of sites that are assessed against a set of criteria to determine their suitability for different types of development. Sources of information include desktop surveys, call for sites, and planning applications.
CW&C have been reviewing and assessing all of the sites that have been identified and submitted to them, and the results are set out in the draft Land Availability Assessment Stage 1 report which can be found at https://consult.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/kse/event/37829.
Site 58 is already classed as a flood area and often pools with water. It’s grazing land for cattle in the summer and landlocked by developments already. Both sides of this site have been developed in the last 5 years but these areas run along frog lane and Chester Road which provide access and already had buildings/structures on them. This is not natural infill be default.
Build on inner village grounds as some are just weed areas and need something doing with them,so low cost houses for LOCAL PEOPLE ONLY would be great on those. As for the rest of the areas around the village I am TOTALLY AGAINST ANY BUILDING on any of the fields.
This beautiful village is full its roads are struggling coping with the traffic already coming in and out,the high street can only just get cars passing each other and regularly gets blocked with traffic. Out village Cannot cope with another housing estate,there are already one each end of the village with UNSOLD HOUSES so why build more. We want to keep out village as it is we DO NOT WANT IT TURNING INTO A TOWN. We have lived here for 34 years so have seen massive changes to the village and also see how it is now really struggling to cope.
The local roads cannot cope with anymore development- in any rainfall, 3 roads into the village flood badly- this needs sorting as a priority.
The local GP surgery does not have capacity to see the current population, and therefore investment needs to be put in place for this.
Parking in the village is insufficient, the roads cannot cope with anymore traffic.
When I moved to Tattenhall over 30 years ago it was a lovely small village, the local infrastructure is not good enough to support a town which with these plans, it will become.
Stop ruining a rural village with more development plans.
Please make sure you submit your comments to Cheshire West & Chester Council as part of this consultation.
Site 56 would be shocking environment due to flood damaged land around it and how majority of roads there flood including that field.
Totally against any more development in Tattenhall. The land gets seriously flooding, drains blocked.
The village does not have the infer structure to cope, Gp surgery, shops, schools both in Tattenhall Primary and Bishop heber school are oversubscribed.
The local lanes cannot cope with any more traffic, the pot holes are horrendous.
The properties around are not selling quickly because developers are greedy and are over pricing everything.
It is just sheer greedy on the developers that they see a beautiful village and want to ruin it before they sort out things that need priority.
The roads!
The sewage will not cope
They will be not countryside left!
Due to the excessive flooding in Tattenhall would it be wise to build more houses. Most areas on the map can often be seen with quite deep surface water. The land price in this area is high so would result in very few houses that local people could actually afford.
Does this consultation stem from the National Planning Policy Framework? I’m assuming it does.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65a11af7e8f5ec000f1f8c46/NPPF_December_2023.pdf
Followed by the statement by The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, and The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP Published 13 February 2024
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/build-on-brownfield-now-gove-tells-underperforming-councils
‘Building homes on brownfield land will be turbocharged under a major shake-up to planning rules to boost housebuilding while protecting the Green Belt’.
• There are only 2 or 3 very small potential ‘brownfield’ sites in Tattenhall
N.B. PM comment – We pledged to build the right homes in the right places – protecting our precious countryside and building more in urban areas where demand is highest.
a) housing (including affordable housing), employment, retail, leisure and other commercial development;
• Is there really a demand for more housing in Tattenhall? Has there been a recent study to give such figures? Is Tattenhall ‘the right place’ (PM’s comment above).
• In my experience, what is needed are 2 bedroomed bungalows. I would willingly sell my 3 bedroomed family home and move to a bungalow in the right place but there are very few available.
b) infrastructure for transport, telecommunications, security, waste management, water supply, wastewater, flood risk and coastal change management, and the provision of minerals and energy (including heat);
Infrastructure problems in and around Tattenhall:
• People who live in Tattenhall need to go to large towns and cities for employment – the vast majority of these journeys have to be by car:
• Access to Tattenhall by road – Rocky Lane is very often flooded and blocked so impossible to use. Frog Lane is often flooded too as is Chester Road such that the village can be ‘cut off’.
• Tattenhall Hall Road/Red Lane leading to the A51 and Tarporley has two very narrow bridges is not suitable for an increase in traffic and large goods vehicles. Tarporley is a village with many essential amenities which are used by the villagers of Tattenhall e.g. the services at the War Memorial Hospital, dentists and various shops and businesses.
• Water supply – several incidences burst water pipes resulting in no water or very low pressure occur frequently in and around Tattenhall.
• Energy supply – in the recent past there was a severe problem with the old gas main in Tattenhall resulting in loss of supply for many days.
• One of the sites for potential housing, I know very well i.e. the land off Chester Road bordering on Rookery Drive – site 59. This land contains a large pond which is full of wildlife and where wild geese nest every year. This pond is probably fed by a natural spring. There is another smaller permanent pond in the same field and when it rains more ponds appear in the natural dips in the undulating land. This land is often like a mire as it acts as a floodplain for Keys Brook and the higher land to the north. Houses which back onto Keys Brook do already suffer from flooding when the brook overflows which does happen several times per year.
c) community facilities (such as health, education and cultural infrastructure);
• Whilst the Tattenhall GP Surgery is very good, it is often very difficult to get an appointment locally and even at its surgery in Farndon. How is this practice going to be able to cater for many more patients? Even now some Tattenhall villagers use the Kelsall, Tarvin or Tarporley GP practices.
• Is Tattenhall Primary School able to cope with more children?