The parish council is a statutory consultee for all planning
applications in Grundisburgh and Culpho. In effect that means that
Suffolk Coastal District Council sends the details of all
applications to the parish council and invites the council to make
comments. Although the parish council is a statutory consultee
anyone can object to, or support, applications. It must also be
remembered that planning permissions are granted, or refused, by
Suffolk Coastal District Council not Parish Councils.
Planning can get people very agitated and the council has a
responsibility to represent the whole community when it makes
comments.
The parish council has agreed the following policy for dealing
with applications:
Planning Sub
Committee
- Domestic extensions
- Change of use
- Work on trees covered by Tree Preservation Orders
- Infill - one property (unless the committee considers the
application contentious - then it would be discussed by the full
Parish Council)
Parish Council
- Infill of more than one property
- Applications that affects the road layout
- Change of use that affects commercial traffic
- Any industrial application
- Any commercial application
Village Meeting
- Any large scale application
- Any application that the Parish Council Chairman, Planning Sub
Committee Chairman and/or the Parish Clerk considers of sufficient
interest to the village.
- Any application that the majority of the Parish Council
consider of interest to the wider community
The planning committee will continue....
- the present practice of not entering into discussions with
applicants other than advising then to consult the Planning
Authority
- to look at each application on its merits ensuring that it
complies with the Suffolk Coastal District Council's Local
Plan.
- to ensure that personalities/individuals do not have any
influence on the Parish Council's final submission
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK (LDF) - NEW HOMES FOR
GRUNDISBURGH ?
The LDF is a new type of plan which will replace the Suffolk
Coastal Local Plan. Part of this is to locate where new homes
will be built in the District between 2008 and 2025.
Government policy is that 7,710 must be built but over half of
these can already be accounted for in terms of land that already
has planning permission or by the potential redevelopment of
existing land within towns and villages.
Of this 1,000 new homes need to be found to the east of Ipswich and
Suffolk Coastal has identified land to the east of the A12 at
Martlesham and Martlesham Heath. Elsewhere homes are
planned for Felixstowe.
New development in villages will be largely influenced by the
nature of each development and its position in a
'hierarchy'. Grundisburgh is one of 24 villages in the
top category 'Key Service Centres' which are centres which provide
an extensive range of services and could be allocated
housing.
Owners of 11 sites in and around Grundisburgh have asked for their
land to be considered for housing. Details,
including maps, can be downloaded
click here. More information can be obtained from the
District Council's web site and comments can be made using the
Council's online consultation system.
The consultation period ends on the 20th February, 2009.
Click here to find out more about the planning
process from the District Council's excellent web site.
Click here to
visit the meetings section of this site and view the planning
section of council meeting minutes and find out how the parish
council deals with individual
applications