Part One: Spatial Strategy and Policies (Regulation 19)

Support

Representation ID: 993

Received: 26/11/2024

Respondent: Sport England

Support provided to the added reference to Sport England's Active Design Guidance as evidence for this policy.

Comments provided that Sport England is producing new guidance on developing Design Codes in respect of physical activity and wishes to work with the Council in the production of the Borough wide Design Code in due course.

Support

Representation ID: 994

Received: 26/11/2024

Respondent: Sport England

Sport England is pleased to see the amendments made to para 7.2 as requested, and to the inclusion of reference to our Active Design Guidance as relevant evidence for the policy.

Object

Representation ID: 995

Received: 26/11/2024

Respondent: Sport England

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Sport England wishes to see a paragraph added to the justification in respect of meeting identified needs for sport and recreation.

Sport England objects to the drafting of part 2 of the associated Infrastructure Delivery Plan (IDP) which could be addressed by adding appropriate reference(s) to address the needs for sport in line with proposed policy DLP38.

Support

Representation ID: 996

Received: 26/11/2024

Respondent: Sport England

At Regulation 18 stage, Sport England made the following representations:
“Sport England supports part 4 of the policy which promotes provision for wider community use of sports and other facilities where appropriate as such facilities play an important role in meeting demand within the local community for sport and physical activity. Sport England would advocate that some text is added to paragraph 8.47 to set out that where appropriate community use agreements will be sought to secure such community usage.”

Sport England is pleased to see the amendment made to para 8.48 of the justification to address this point.

Support

Representation ID: 997

Received: 26/11/2024

Respondent: Sport England

There is an inaccurate reference to Sport England guidance that is referred to as Sport England policy. This should be addressed as follows:

11.71g – Encouraging implementation of the Sport England Active Design Guidance.
Sport England is pleased to note that the other amendments previously recommended have been included, including the amendment to paragraph 11.72 making the roles of policies DLP37 and DLP 38 clearer.

Support

Representation ID: 998

Received: 26/11/2024

Respondent: Sport England

Sport England is pleased to see the amendment made to include part 5 of the policy to address the representation made previously.

There is still a lack of clarity in respect of the scale of development for which part 3 of the policy is to be applied. The Council’s states that contributions will be sought when financially viable to do so, in line with the most up to date evidence, however we still consider that the Council should be clearer as to the scale of development for which the policy applies eg. for major developments above X units.

Support

Representation ID: 1004

Received: 26/11/2024

Respondent: Sport England

The first point we raised has been mis-understood in respect of the wording of para 11.71g). To address this a minor modification is recommended as follows:
11.71g – Encouraging implementation of the Sport England Active Design Guidance.
Sport England is pleased to note that the other amendments previously recommended have been included, including the amendment to paragraph 11.72 making the roles of policies DLP37 and DLP 38 clearer.