11/00713/F - Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk

The table below shows the scoring for the The Willows in the ES.
Criteria Description Appraisal
1 Site Allocations & Policy
2 Planning Vision for the Area
3 Sensitive Human Receptors
4 Landscape and Visual Considerations
5 Potential Impacts on the Natural Environment
6
Potential Impacts on Historic Environment & Built
Heritage
7 Road Access
8 Rail or Water Transport X
9 Energy Utilisation =
10 Flood Risk
11 Groundwater Vulnerability
12 Not within Aerodrome Safeguarding Zones
13 Not within Air Quality Management Areas
14
Within 10 miles of either Norwich Policy Area, Gt
Yarmouth urban area, King’s Lynn or Thetford
Within the short timescale allowed by the County, it has not been possible to look at the long
list of 59 sites which was whittled down to the short list of 9 and has not had time to look in
detail at the other 8 sites in the shortlist. But, with regard to the ASA, and taking each
‘positive attribute’ in turn, the LPA has the following observations:
Site Allocation and Policy
The Site Allocation Development Plan Document (DPD) used in the consideration of this
element has not been adopted nor considered sound and its use is inappropriate as the
basis for assessment. Furthermore there is an inconsistency between Sites 6 and 7.
Planning Vision
The DPD used in the consideration of this element has not been adopted nor considered
sound and the LPA therefore question is appropriateness as the basis for assessment. The
uncertainty over DPDs relating to saved and proposed waste sites makes this element of the
ASA very difficult to consider at this time.
11/01064/CM Development Control Board
25 July 2011
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