5 May 2015 - The Neighbourhood Plan boundary has finally been approved.
Following the public consultation which closed on 9 March SCDC has approved an amended version of our proposed boundary. The following changes have been made by SCDC to our submitted boundary:-
- Seckford Heights, Woodbridge FC site, Dukes Park, and the south side of California will be covered by the Woodbridge Neighbourhood Plan (please note this does NOT mean that these areas will move out of Martlesham Parish - the parish boundary will remain unchange).
- The whole of the BT site (ie the area known as Adastral Park within the BT security fence) plus the development land so the south and east of Adastral Park have been excluded from the Neighbourhood Plan boundary. SCDC's reasons for this are set out on Page 2 of the Decision Notice which can be downloaded from their website here. The full consultation website is here
- This decision notice states that "Any grant of planning permission will be subject to a condition requiring a masterplan to be produced. The community would have input into the masterplan.......The combined neighbourhood plan / masterplan approach is considered to provide a strong local input / influence and a strong framework to ensure the physical and social integration between existing and future communities, service provision and land uses over the next 15 to 20 years."
- We intend to press for meaningful community involvement prior to any planning consent being given. The Planning Application pre-dates SP20 and is now some 6 years old and much has changed since then (for example the emergence of a much busier retail park). In addition the process of developing the Local Plan, and the subsequent Inspection process raised a number of issues which were not covered by the planning application - for example mitigating open spaces, country park availability etc - all of which could impact on the local area.
- Looking on the positive side the Neighbourhood Plan will cover the rest of the parish outside the areas mentioned above (see the second map in the above decision notice).