Community Amenities

CA1 - Community Amenities

To ensure consistency with the NPPF, the policy should be updated to ensure sufficient provision of the community facility. The policy should be updated to the following:

"To protect and enhance the allotments site (as shown below) from any future potential development."

A boundary should be added to the policy map to clearly outline the extent of the allotments area.

CS1 - Community Site

A boundary should be added to the policy map to clearly outline the area designated for a new Community Hub/Hall.

The objective to introduce new amenity facilities within the central part of the village needs to be supported by new residential development that will result in new residents being within easy walking and cycling distance of them. Site 039 clearly meets this objective better than site 226 for the reasons mentioned previously.

As the proposed community facility will be partly funded by developer contributions it is critical that other financial burdens placed on development to make them acceptable are reduced. This reinforces the concern that development on the Fiddlers Field site is so heavily dependant on delivering the new road and priority junctions that the development will offer little in the way of wider community benefits.

Proposed Change: None