Irby, Thurstaston & Pensby Amenity Society
Registered Charity # 1150756
Irby, Thurstaston & Pensby Amenity Society
Registered Charity # 1150756
This Response has been produced by ITPAS with inputs from colleagues in fellow Groups comprising WGSA (Wirral Green Space Alliance) collaborating over the
Wirral Local Plan which is now in its final Examination stages.
Special mention is made of the Heswall Society for the framework used and various response extracts; also, to CPRE (Campaign for Protection of Rural England) and ‘Wirral Wildlife’, whose responses accord with many of our own thoughts, and we wish to be taken as being parts of this overall Consultation Response (although we have not included direct text extracts).
Where there are differences in emphasis, the response and answers to the 106 Questions, provided in this LINK take precedence.
We also make particular mention of the extraordinary inputs to understanding of the figures, data, methodologies and the logical and statistical background to issues provided by Prof. David Gregg, and especially the proper ‘Local Assessment of Housing Need’ and critique of the Government’s current proposals for Changes to the Planning System.
(see the Prof’s separate Responses and communications) Here.
Again, we wish his Responses to be taken as part of this overall Response: his 2 documents are available in this LINK. It should be noted that Prof Gregg’s work, explanations and appraisals have been supported by the eminent Prof of Population Studies (and past Government Adviser)
Prof Ludi Simpson, and by the OSR (Office of Statistics Regulation – the ONS’s Regulator).
Our overall conclusion is that the Government Proposals are a right ‘curate’s egg’, fundamentally flawed and likely to fail in the methodology of the mandated use of an illogical, statistically unsupportable and damaging Standard Method and excessive and arbitrarily-allocated Housing Targets. There is little credit given for past efforts and achievements but there are many sensible suggestions which hopefully will bear fruit. Sadly though, the lasting impression is of a ‘Developers’ Charter’ wherein the footprints of developers are crystal clear, self-serving and potentially very harmful.
106 Questions and their accompanying statements.
ITPAS is a Wirral local community Group of over 500 Members concerned with the Environment, Planning, History and Community Life in its Area, comprising Irby, Thurstaston, Pensby, Thingwall and parts of Barnston. It is also a Founding Group Member of Wirral Green Space Alliance (WGSA) involved for many years in work assisting Wirral Council to prepare, have approved and adopted a Local Plan, the first for over 20 years.
The emerging Local Plan has the unanimous support of all Political Parties on the Council and the vast majority of Wirral Residents,
gained through many open meetings, questionnaires, surveys and correspondence.
It is now in the final stages of its Examination with the Inspectors having stated it can be found to be ‘sound’.
ITPAS would ask for this Response to be recorded as being from more than a single Responder
in view of the number and unanimity of views expressed by its Members.
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