LAZONBY NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN
STEERING GROUP
MINUTES
Subject
Steering Group Meeting
Date of Meeting:
1st September 2016
Location of Meeting:
Lazonby Village Hall
Attendees:
Name:
Gordon Malcolm (GM) – Chair
Cllr Peter Minihan (PM)
Cllr Virginia Minihan (VM)
Roger Campbell (RC)
John Nicol (JN)
Neil Kennedy (NK)
Lorrainne Smythe (LS)
ITEM
ACTION
1. 1Apologies
Apologies were received from Cllr Gordon Nicolson (GN) and Cllr Chris Hill (CH)
It was also announced that John Boardman is no longer at EDC and that they
currently have not replaced him as they are busy with the Eden Local Plan. Therefore
JB items detailed in the May minutes have not been actioned.
2.
Eden Local Plan Amendments and what it means for the LNP
The examiner had several areas that he requested be tightened up. The main one
affecting us was to do with the reduction in Key Hubs from 28 to 12. As Lazonby
remains as a Key Hub this means that the 720 dwellings that have to be provided for
the District over the next 5 years has to be divided by the 12 new Hubs rather than
the 28 original Hubs. The 30% Affordable Homes target still exists. The detailed
documents including the Report dated 14.7.2016, a timetable of events and all
comments made. This includes the comments made by Barton Wilmore on behalf of
Story Homes who are claiming that EDC are still not compliant with the way they have
calculated the Housing need and that the Housing need due to the Revised
Document of Need should be higher than has been stated by the Local Plan. EDC’s
comments seem to suggest that they will stick to their numbers of housing need
rather than move to the increased numbers suggested by Barton Wilmore. It was
decided that:
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Provided that the LNP has allocated sites detailing why they are there and
why other are not, then this should strengthen the decision making powers of
the planning committee, in particular it limits the scope and efficacy of
appeals and should therefore make it more difficult for developers getting
permission for planning.
General comments were made that life is not worse in the village now that
The Meadows is up and running and in fact the positives are that the other
empty houses in the village have been sold to people drawn to the village to
look at the Story Homes. The school has also benefitted from the increase in
school age children now living in the village. The negatives are the visual
impact and the increase in traffic creating a ‘Lazonby rush-hour’.
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There is still a risk of Lazonby being forced to take more of the housing stock
if other villages have not taken their fair share of the ELP housing allocation
but having the LNP strengthens our hand.
Over the next 5 years the housing allocation is 720 divided by twelve hubs.
All 720 could be in one key-hub, but this is highly unlikely. Therefore an
approximation for Lazonby’s allocation is for 60 dwellings over the five years.
Currently our draft plan has 108 dwellings (includes 5 on old Egg Packing
Plant and 48 at The Meadows). This covers us for 7 years (until 2023) and we
need to check that these are all deliverable.
There was some discussion over the life of our plan with a suggestion that if
we date it from 2013 (first meeting was 11.03.2014) to 2023 it would be a 10
Year Plan so we would be compliant on our housing numbers. NB We may
need to change this to 2014 – 2024 now that I have looked up the date of the
first meeting - VM
Further discussion revealed that we may well have sufficient possible housing
allocations already in hand but not yet noted in draft Plan such as:-
The Lilacs = 5 houses now approved
Hesket Park = 35 serviced pitches
Piggeries = 20 although acreage needs to be checked to see if this is too many
Infil/Windfall Sites at 3 per year could give min 20 notional dwellings over life of plan
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Not all Key Hubs will take an equal number because of the scoring system
whereby Lazonby comes out 4th which means that we could be asked to take
more than our fair share and therefore it would be better to have more
allocations rather than less so that we can determine where the development
is sited.
3. 2Work still to be done
The remaining work to be done on the draft plan was divided up as follows:
Housing Sites – where (+ plan); size in hectares; justification for inclusion;
policies specific to site.
VM
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Photographs – specific; general; aerial.
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General Housing text/Design guide to be revisited and revised to include
representing residents’ concerns about design and characteristics of
buildings.
PM
CH
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Decision on housing numbers, allocation of sites, dealing with windfall/infill
sites, Plan to show boundary (red line) of village.
VM
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Bibliography, Reference section and Glossary to be added.
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CIL/Section106 ‘wish list’ to cover the life of the Plan to be compiled and then
emailed round to be added to.
GM
VM
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Rewording of Policies to make them ‘Planning Compliant’
All this needs to be completed and sent to GM by 22nd September who will then
add it to the existing draft plan and email round for everyone to consider by 29th
September.
GM
4. 3Re-engaging with Residents
It was decided that our main difficulty will be ‘selling’ the Plan to parishioners whilst
still complying with the Eden Local Plan and its housing allocations. Therefore we will
send every parishioner a Summary Plan which puts everything in as positive a light as
possible with information about where they can access the complete document and
appendices. This will be written by JN once the draft plan is complete in order to ‘win
hearts and minds’ and accompanied by a covering letter. Responses and comments
from all the above will be directed to a specific email address set up by the Parish
Council and then collated after a specified date.
5.
Future Timetable
All plans that need to be included should be emailed to GM before Tuesday 11th
October so that a list can be drawn up along with a check that we have everything
that is required for the submission package – Draft Plan + Design Guide +
Environmental Scoping Guide (SEA) + Consultation Statement + Basic Conditions
Statement + all associated Appendices.
A grant application for Professional Support to review and endorse the submission
package to allow us to submit it to EDC in January/February 2017.
6. 5Date of Next Meeting
Tuesday 11th October in the Jubilee Room at Lazonby Village Hall at 7.30pm
JN
GM
GN