Please support our Campaign by writing to or emailing IBC.
Request that IBC exercise their statutory duties (for this important historical and biodiverse site);
to seek professional expert review of the survey information, & independent verification of the
landowner's tree survey recommendations
remind that important and Protected Species who live on the site have been formally reported and Natural England’s advice should be secured
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/23514390.ashcroft-road-ipswich-hit-flash-flood-storm/
" Hilary Bond, who was at her friend's house at the time of the flooding, said: "It happens everytime there is a heavy downpour.
"The manhole cover lifts at the bottom of Larchcroft Road and the sewage empties into the road and into the lowest houses."
"It's been happening for years, he gets told its fixed but then it happens again.
"The fish in his pond end up being swept away and he's left with raw sewage in front and back gardens."
Suffolk Highways said it attended the road and found Anglian Water sewer covers had lifted as a result of heavy rainfall.
On March 8th, Ipswich Borough Council Planning Committee voted in interim guidance on 'Biodiversity Net Gain' (BNG) requirements, which were outlined in law within the 2021 Environment Act.
page 159, Item 6-
COMMITTEE: PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT REF NO: PD/22/14
This 'BNG' consideration is hugely important to 'greenfield sites such as the Red House Park Application which has proven and recorded protected species - as Great Crested Newts- SOCS registered them in 2015 with the Suffolk Biological Records office following a resident's survey.
New surveys and work will be required, as outlined in the above BNG guidance document, for all current and future determinations!
The Ipswich Borough Area Committees, Planning & Development Department, local MP Tom Hunt, stakeholders Suffolk Wildlife Trust, 'Place' Biodiversity Consultancy, Natural England and the Environment Agency have been approached and petitioned by SOCS on this.These photos were taken in November 2022 by a licensed rescuer of some 20 Newts at risk, along the Westerfield Watercouse & tributary of the Gipping which flows alongside and within these important Ipswich Garden Suburb site. If you live in IP4 bordering the area, please look out and report all sitings of protected species.
Despite the intervening 6 years, it would appear few of the substantive concerns raised have been addressed; neither have they been adequately addressed within this application.
We suggest the application is inadequate, proposals DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK (NPPF)
Growth, must be measured against the potential for serious adverse effects and serious adverse impacts, which included adverse impacts on the Quality of Life and Public Health.
The potential to secure a ‘sustainable future’ for the existing local population, future populations and future generations is an imperative not demonstrated by the application.
The “Climate Change” agenda is insufficiently addressed. Proposals are contrary to NPPF 10- Meeting the challenge of climate change, flooding and coastal change.
“Serious adverse effects” have not been properly identified, as required under compliance with the NPPF.
NPPF 6-17) Achieving Sustainable Development for either the CS or development and control purposes.
This situation is likely to render any planning application almost impossible to determine properly and therefore, we say, render the major IGS planning applications problematic. It also potentially renders stakeholder responses to planning applications a problem.
NPPF-11 Conserving and enhancing the natural environment is not adequately taken into account.
TAKING FULL ACCOUNT OF15 CUMULATIVE AND COMPOUND ADVERSE EFFECTS: requires that the assessment include identification of cumulative and synergistic effects including those produced by other neighbouring local authorities. The SA does not appear to take account of the cumulative effect of CSs Plans of neighbouring authorities with regard to housing, employment and especially transport/traffic and increased air pollution and traffic congestion.
There has been a growing recognition of the adverse cumulative impacts of poorly delivered development, unwise planning approvals - (often due to the pressures on Local Authorities of the NFPP 5 year House supply issue) - compounded by the failure of the Local Plan system (as well as NPPF) to deliver sustainable expansion, sustainable economic growth and housing delivery.
The Key Sustainability issues and concerns relating to this Development (and the other IGS developments) have remained essentially constant since these proposals were put forward in 2004 Local Plan Process.
The Ipswich Garden Suburb SPD in SOCS view, whilst providing basic steer, is in need of a review to take account of significant developments and constraints, and major requirements such as carbon neutrality, Air Quality pollution improvements from particulates, and failure to allow mitigation against emerging world events- such as food supply and security.
Public Health adverse Air Quality impacts, and premature deaths from the current and future likely increase in traffic, and the resulting critical increases in Air Pollution.
Public Health adverse impacts from the lack of primary care services and current GP availability, no Health Impact Assessment was submitted for this application despite our requesting it in 2012, ( a weakness we identity due to long planning time frame) due to delays from 2017 and application 5 years on as reserve matters; no planned GP primary care provision requiring that new patients would have to travel to existing overloaded and inadequate GP services further exacerbating Air Quality problems.(See copy of the correspondence re FOI.)
The real risk of overload, of Cliff Key, as advised by Anglian Water (for both Mersea Red House & Fonnereau) flood (see below) and resulting contamination (particularly of the Gipping area) from this and other cumulative development, No rivers in Suffolk currently meet government targets for good water quality, a report found. Strong measures are needed mitigating against Climate Change and from increasing adverse weather events.
10 years on from the promise of an off site sewage plan for the Northern fringe, it appears no nearer any viable sustainable long term resolution. Suffolk’s rivers are in a parlous stage due to sewage pollution and lack of remedial measures or actions against it.1
The current need to protect Farm Land and food production and food security issues.
THE FOLLOWING ON GOING ISSUES NEED TO BE FULLY AND ADEQUATELY ASSESSED
Issues identified repeatedly but not resolved 2014, 2016, 2021, 2022
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1https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-61396658 Suffolk's rivers fail to meet national quality targets, report says
1 Chair Tuddenham Road IP4
Save Our Country Spaces – SOCS
Hybrid Planning application IP/22/00013/OUTFL by Mersea Homes for the Red House Park development.
Full Planning permission for the two principal means of vehicular access and all pedestrian and cycle accesses off Westerfield Road. Outline planning application (all matters reserved) for a mixed use development for up to 1,020 dwellings (Use Class C3), a local centre etc
Objection: √
SOCS endorse all points for IP/22/00013/OUTFL - raised in the full technical detail response by Brian Samuel on behalf of the North Fringe Protection group and submitted by SOCS as Appendix A.
This feedback represents the 1000 resident’s continuing ongoing objections to Mersea Homes Fonnereau/ Red House Ipswich Garden Suburb development planning proposals - initially made in 2014 and resubmitted in 2017.
Growth, must be measured against the potential for serious adverse effects and serious adverse impacts, which included adverse impacts on the Quality of Life and Public Health.
The potential to secure a “sustainable future” for the existing local population, future populations and future generations is an imperative not demonstrated by the application.
The “Climate Change” agenda is insufficiently addressed. Proposals are contrary to NPPF 10- Meeting the challenge of climate change, flooding and coastal change.
“Serious adverse effects” have not been properly identified, as required under compliance with the NPPF.
NPPF 6-17) Achieving Sustainable Development for either the CS or development and control purposes.
This situation is likely to render any planning application almost impossible to determine properly and therefore, we say, render the major IGS planning applications problematic. It also potentially renders stakeholder responses to planning applications a problem.
NPPF-11 Conserving and enhancing the natural environment is not adequately taken into account.
TAKING FULL ACCOUNT OF 16 CUMULATIVE AND COMPOUND ADVERSE EFFECTS: requires that the assessment include identification of cumulative and synergistic effects including those produced by other neighbouring local authorities. The SA does not appear to take account of the cumulative effect of Core Strategy Plans of neighbouring authorities with regard to housing, employment and especially transport/traffic and increased air pollution and traffic congestion.
Despite the intervening 6 years, it would appear few of the substantive concerns raised have been addressed. Nor have concerns raised during the pre application Consultation March 2021 been satisfied.
Neither have they been adequately addressed within this ‘hybrid’ Application.
We suggest the Application is inadequate, proposals
DO NOT COMPLY WITH THE NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY FRAMEWORK (NPPF)
There has been a growing recognitive of the adverse cumulative impacts of poorly delivered development, unwise planning approvals - (often due to the pressures on Local Authorities of the NFPP 5 year House supply issue) - compounded by the failure of the Local Plan system (as well as NPPF) to deliver sustainable expansion, sustainable economic growth and housing delivery.
The Key Sustainability issues and concerns raised by stakeholders and the public to date relating to Mersea Homes Development (and the other IGS developments) have remained essentially constant since these proposals were put forward in 2004 Local Plan Process. There is now an imperative to address issues such as Food security and protection of grade 2 land, address impacts from Air pollution and particulates, mitigate against increasing flood risks and foul sewer contamination, to halt biodiversity loss in order to address the Climate Change & Emergency and meet rigorous new targets on this before it is too late.
The Ipswich Garden Suburb SPD in SOCS view, whilst providing basic steer, is in need of a review to take account of significant developments and constraints, and major requirements such as carbon neutrality, Air Quality pollution improvements from particulates, and failure to allow mitigation against emerging world events- such as food supply and security.
Public opinion and feedback from residents to us indicate, that over the time, areas of concerns raised by residents and stakeholders have not been addressed nor sufficient mitigation established to have any confidence in either the need, viability or sustainability of this application.
SOCS
endorse all points for IP/22/00013/OUTFL
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raised in the full technical detail response by Brian
Samuel on behalf of the North Fringe Protection group and submitted
by SOCS as Appendix A with kind permission.
Please see full combined response from SOCS & NFPG here;
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pKXyo8i2HMqId9zZyBNQPpFoc0_k-BpV/view?usp=sharing
Mersea Homes Application- Please write in with your views.
Return to Planning & Development Ipswich Borough Council Grafton House 15-17 Russell Road Ipswich IP1 2DE Tel 01473 432343 ping.robbins@ipswich.gov.uk Email:development.management@ipswich.gov.uk
Dear residents and other interested parties,
SOCS have just received this.
I am sure both SOCS & The North Fringe Protection Group will look carefully to enable and help you to respond.
Hybrid Application -see here https://ppc.ipswich.gov.uk/searchselect.asp
'Full Planning permission for the two principal means of vehicular access and all pedestrian and cycle accesses off Westerfield Road.
'Outline planning application (all matters reserved) for a mixed use development for up to 1,020 dwellings (Use Class C3), a local centre (to accommodate up to 800 sq m of net floorspace within Use Class E and/or hot food takeaways and/or public house), a Primary and Secondary School (both Use Class F1(a)); potential school vehicular access from Westerfield Road; cycle and pedestrian access from Tuddenham Road; provision of formal and informal open spaces and other landscaped areas and play areas; provision of infrastructure (including internal highways, parking, servicing, cycle and pedestrian routes, utilities and sustainable drainage systems); landscaping and engineering works (including ground remodelling and enabling works).
Works proposed will affect Tree Preservation Orders within the application site.
An Environmental Statement has been submitted with the application under the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment)(England and Wales) Regulations 2017.'
Please find attached consultation for your comment.
Kind regards
Ping Robbins
Business Support Assistant
Planning & Development
Ipswich Borough Council
Grafton House
15-17 Russell Road
Ipswich
IP1 2DE
Tel 01473 432343
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