Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Draft Waste Local Plan January 2022

Comment

Representation ID: 697

Received: 07/04/2022

Respondent: Via East Midlands

4.Overview of the plan area

Spatial portrait paragraph 4.5 – amend as follows: -

‘The County’s landscape is characterised by rich rolling farmlands to the south, with a central belt of mixed woodland and farmland, giving way to heathland in the north and open, flat agricultural landscapes dominated by the River Trent to the east. ‘
Change to:
‘The County’s landscape is characterised by rich rolling farmlands to the south, with a central belt of mixed woodland and farmland, giving way to the heathland of Sherwood in the north west, and open, flat agricultural landscapes dominated by the River Trent to the east, and the flat, low lying agricultural landscapes of the Humberhead Levels to the north.

Comment

Representation ID: 698

Received: 07/04/2022

Respondent: Via East Midlands

SP3 – Broad Locations for New Waste Treatment Facilities

Paragraph 7.21 – The plan reference needs to be added to this paragraph

Comment

Representation ID: 699

Received: 07/04/2022

Respondent: Via East Midlands

Policy SP4 – amend as follows: -

‘c) in all cases, the resulting final landform, landscaping and after-uses must be designed to take account of and, where appropriate, enhance the surrounding landscape, topography and natural environment.’
Change to:
‘c) in all cases, the resulting final landform, landscape treatment and after-uses must be designed to take account of and, where appropriate, enhance the surrounding landscape character, topography and natural environment.’

Comment

Representation ID: 700

Received: 07/04/2022

Respondent: Via East Midlands

Paragraph 7.26 – amend spelling error ‘the plan’ for ‘the pan’

Comment

Representation ID: 701

Received: 07/04/2022

Respondent: Via East Midlands

Paragraph 7.30 – amend as follows: -

• ‘Landscaping and noise attenuation bunds to screen development’
Change to:
• Landscape treatment and noise attenuation bunds to screen development’.

Comment

Representation ID: 702

Received: 07/04/2022

Respondent: Via East Midlands

SP8 - Safeguarding Waste management sites

Paragraph 7.64 – amend as follows: -

‘Mitigations therefore could include using parking or landscaping areas to provide a buffer zone from any existing or potential waste facility’
Change to:
‘Mitigation therefore could include using parking or landscape areas to provide a buffer zone from any existing or potential waste facility’

Comment

Representation ID: 703

Received: 07/04/2022

Respondent: Via East Midlands

DM1 – Paragraph 8.15 – add the following to the existing first sentence
‘Larger energy recovery plants (including incineration, gasification, pyrolysis, and possible anaerobic digestion) will require a large industrial type building with a tall stack or chimney and, in some case may have visible plant or pipe work on the outside which will have a visual impact on the surrounding area’

Comment

Representation ID: 704

Received: 07/04/2022

Respondent: Via East Midlands

DM1 - Paragraph 8.19 – add missing words

‘However, land raise schemes are unlikely to be acceptable within the Green Belt because of the visual impact on the otherwise open character of the landscape.’

Comment

Representation ID: 705

Received: 07/04/2022

Respondent: Via East Midlands

DM2 - Health, Wellbeing and Amenity

Paragraph 8.23 - add the following amendments: -
‘Development should be located away from areas of important landscape character, cultural associations, heritage and nature conservation value.’

‘Facilities should be designed to fit in with their surrounding landscape or townscape and built and operated to the highest standards to minimise possible impacts such as landscape and visual impacts, noise, dust, mud, vibration, litter, odour, traffic nuisance and light pollution in order to protect local amenity.’

Comment

Representation ID: 706

Received: 07/04/2022

Respondent: Via East Midlands

DM2 - Paragraph 8.24 – amend as follows

‘Opportunities for environmental enhancement should also be informed by Local Landscape Character Assessments’
Change to:
‘Opportunities for environmental enhancement should also be informed by National, Regional and Local Landscape Character Assessments, taking note of the associated species lists’