Community Infrastructure Levy Revised Preliminary Draft
Charging Schedule (February 2015)
Comments Form
Please return by 9:00am on 30th March 2015 to:
or
South Worcestershire Development Plan Team,
Civic Centre,
Queen Elizabeth Drive,
Pershore,
Worcestershire
WR10 1PT
contact@swdevelopmentplan.org
Ref:
(For official use only)
How we will use your details
The personal information you provide on this form will be held and processed in accordance with the requirements of the
Data Protection Act 1998.
Please note that your name, postal address and comments may be made publicly available when displaying and reporting
the outcome of this consultation and cannot be treated as confidential. Any other details, including signatures, private
telephone numbers and email addresses will not be published on the Council’s website, but the original representations with
personal details redacted will be available in full for inspection on request.
2. Agent’s details
(if applicable)
1. Personal details
Title
Full name
Mr
John Morgan
Job title
(if applicable)
Organisation
(if applicable)
Stratford Rail Transport
Group
Address
189 Dovehouse Drive
Wellesbourne
Warwick
Postcode
CV35 9NW
Telephone
number
E-mail address
railwaysrtg@yahoo.co.uk
In parallel with the South Worcestershire Development Plan, the South Worcestershire
Councils (Worcester City, Malvern Hills and Wychavon District Councils) are synchronising
the process of preparing a Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL). Each authority intends to
submit a Draft Charging Schedule in due course in 2015 for examination. At this is a re-run
of the first consultation stage, the Councils are inviting representations on the Revised
Preliminary Draft Charging Schedule (PDCS). Consultation on the Revised PDCS has
been necessary due to the uplift of the Objectively Assessed Housing Need provided by the
South Worcestershire Development Plan (SWDP) Inspector from his interim conclusions to
the Stage 1 Examination published in March 2014.
Please submit your representation by using this form and answering the questions below.
Question 1: Should the South Worcestershire Authorities introduce a CIL Charging
Schedule?
Yes
Yes
No
Question 2: Do you have any views on the indicative draft Regulation 123 list and the
split between s.106 and CIL?
No
Question 3: Do you agree that the Levy should be set at a cautious level?
Yes
Yes
No
Question 4: Do you think that the South Worcestershire Councils should maintain
the use of planning obligations as the principal way of funding infrastructure on
strategic sites?
Yes
No
Yes
Question 5: Do you think that the South Worcestershire Councils should introduce a
site specific rate for strategic sites, where this is supported by evidence on economic
viability?
Yes
Yes
No
Question 6: Should the SWC review CIL in 2019 in conjunction with the proposed
SWDP review?
Yes
Yes
No
Question 7: Should the South Worcestershire Authorities introduce an instalments
policy?
Yes
Yes
No
Question 8: Should the South Worcestershire Authorities apply exemptions to any
further types of development?
Yes
No
No
If yes, which further types of development should also be exempt?
Question 9: Do you agree with the proposed CIL rates for each Council area and
each use?
Yes
Yes
No
Question 10: Do you agree with the proposed rates for the SWDP strategic sites?
Yes
Yes
No
Question 11: Would like to explain your choices for the questions in further detail? If
so, please make your comments below, as clearly and concisely as possible. For
instance, if you are referring to any particular text, please state the relevant paragraph
number. Please continue on an additional sheet securely attached, if necessary.
Appendix A fails to include reference to the Stratford- Honeybourne –Oxford/Worcester/
Broadway railway reinstatement, including the costs of reinstating platforms 3 and 4 of
Honeybourne station, the Oxford facing chord line at Honeybourne Junction and upgrading the
existing single line railway from Long Marston-Honeybourne from freight to passenger standards.
The former Stratford-Honeybourne-Oxford/Worcester railway line has been the subject of a
feasibility study conducted by ARUP in 2012, for local authorities including Worcestershire County
Council, the rail industry and rail groups, on the reopening of this route as part of the national
network. Proposed services include Stratford-Oxford and Stratford-Worcester. The study
concluded that, “the Line is a promising candidate for reinstatement."
The railway line is protected in ‘saved’ Wychavon Local Plan Policy SR6, which safeguards that
section of the former Stratford-Oxford/Cheltenham/Worcester railway including the Honeybourne
Junction chord lines, for reinstatement of the railway.
This policy approach is continued in the submission South Worcestershire Joint Core Strategy,
2013, currently under examination, Policy SWDP 4: Moving Around South Worcestershire.
The scheme is also supported in the Worcestershire Local Transport Plan, 2011-26, Policy SW21.
The comments will be registered and acknowledged and will then be carefully considered in
preparing the final documents to go forward for consideration and adoption by the respective
Council. A summary of the comments received and officer response will be reported to the
relevant Planning Committee and Cabinet/ Executive meeting.
Signature
J. Morgan
Date
28 March 2015
Responses to this consultation should be sent to the e-mail contact address and
postal address shown at the top of this form.
Please ensure all responses are marked for the attention of the South Worcestershire
Development Plan Team