Other

ID sylw: 106477

Derbyniwyd: 28/02/2025

Ymatebydd: McCarthy Stone and Churchill Living

Asiant : The Planning Bureau Ltd

The draft policy requires the submission of a Health Impact Assessment for planning applications for major development. The Council should note that there is a common misconception that older person’s housing places an additional burden on healthcare infrastructure and therefore rather than requiring applicants of older person’s schemes to show that there is capacity in healthcare systems and to show that the scheme will not have a health impact, the policy should instead recognise the health benefits that delivering older people’s housing can bring to individuals.
In addition, specifically designed housing for older people offers significant opportunities to enable residents to be as independent as possible in a safe and warm environment. Older homes are typically in a poorer state of repair, are often colder, damper, have more risk of fire and fall hazards. They lack in adaptions such as handrails, wider internal doors, stair lifts and walk in showers. Without these simple features everyday tasks can become harder and harder.

Recommendation:
For the plan to be in line with national policy and effective the following wording should be added to para 2 of the policy to recognise the health benefits of older persons housing. Specialist Housing for older people has a number of health benefits and proposals for such schemes will not be required to submit a Health Impact Assessment

No

ID sylw: 106478

Derbyniwyd: 28/02/2025

Ymatebydd: McCarthy Stone and Churchill Living

Asiant : The Planning Bureau Ltd

The Council should ensure that the proposed policy wording is consistent with relevant government guidance and Regulations. Although we recognise that the 10% is a minimum it should be for the developer to decide whether to go beyond this figure not the Council. It is important to remember that that it is impossible to know what the cost of delivering net gain is until the base level of biodiversity on a site is known and consequently what is required to
achieve a 10% net gain. On some sites this may be achievable on site with no reduction in developable area, for others it may require a large proportion of it to be addressed offsite or a significant reduction in the developable area – a far more expensive option that could
render a site unviable without a reduction in other policy requirements. The council should therefore not require BNG of greater than the 10%.

No

ID sylw: 106479

Derbyniwyd: 28/02/2025

Ymatebydd: McCarthy Stone and Churchill Living

Asiant : The Planning Bureau Ltd

The Council should not set a higher environmental target than those already set out by government, the Building Regulations and those set out in the Environment Act 2021. This includes ensuring that the Council does not require BNG above 10%. Any environmental
target beyond the current legislation would need to be fully evidenced and justified and ensure it meets the requirements of paragraph 58 of the NPPF and in particular ensure that any requirement is ‘fairly and reasonably related in scale and kind to the development’.