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Table Two continued

Responder Comment INP Reference Comment Response Change
Number Number Page Policy Para Required
9 1 F1 Thames Water support Policy F1 and its Agreed to include Yes
requirement for development proposal to ensure additional paragraph/
that the level of flood risk does not increase and policy as suggested.
that where appropriate and effective SUDs are
used to address surface water drainage.
However with the above new charging schedule
in mind we would request that additional
supporting text requesting developers engage
early with Thames Water is included to strengthen
the section.
Text along the lines of: “Developers need to
consider the net increase in water and waste
water demand to serve their developments and
also any impact the development may have off site
further down the network, if no/low water
pressure and internal/external sewage flooding
of property is to be avoided. Thames Water
encourages developers to use their free pre-
planning service https://
www.thameswater.co.uk/preplanning. This
service can tell developers at an early stage if
Thames will have capacity in their water and/or
wastewater networks to serve their development,
or what they will do if they don’t. The developer
can then submit this as evidence to support a
planning application and Thames can prepare to
serve the new development at the point of need,
helping avoid delays to housing delivery
programmes.”

Table Three – Comments arising from Consultation Process by AVDC

Appendix –Table of AVDC Comments on the Ickford NP Pre Submission documents, May 2019

Table A. comments on the Pre-Submission Plan

Responder Comment INP Reference Comment Response Change
Number Number Page Policy Para Required

11 1 Through wording The wording of policies needs to be tightened up Comment welcomed Changes
out to ensure they are unambiguous, targeted and made
effective. In particular ‘shall’ or ‘will’ should be used
throughout the policies in stead of ‘should’ or ‘will
be expected to’; ‘where possible’ should be ‘unless
special justification is provided’ – which in turn
should include criteria for special justification.
Terms included in policies should be defined or have
a definition in the VALP or NPPF referenced, i.e
‘visual intrusion’, ‘smaller homes’

11 2 7 1.2 If the basic conditions are to be listed they should The full text of the basic Yes, add in
mirror the full wording of the conditions as per conditions are complicated reference
NPPG https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ for the average reader to to full text
neighbourhood-planning—2#basic-conditions- understand, particularly as of the basic
for-neighbourhood-plan-to-referendum. they also refer to Orders. considitions.
Reference to the source of
the specific wording can be
inserted, making it clear
that the bullet points are a
summary.

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