Support

Representation ID: 22270

Received: 21/01/2022

Respondent: Miss Jodi Stokes

4.0 INFRASTRUCTURE AND DELIVERY

Infrastructure Provision

4.1 Draft Policy DE1 (Infrastructure Provision) sets out that “all new developments should be supported by the necessary on and off-site infrastructure to serve its needs, mitigate its impacts on the environment and the local community and ensure that it is sustainable and contributes to the proper planning of the wider area”. We strongly agree that all new development should provide the necessary on and off-site infrastructure to support or mitigate the proposals. This draft policy reflects the requirement of paragraph 20 of the NPPF that strategic policies should make sufficient provision for infrastructure including transport, telecommunications, security, waste management, water supply, wastewater, flood risk and coastal change management, and the provision of minerals and energy (including heat).

4.2 Part 3 of draft Policy DEL1 sets out that the Black Country Authorities will provide further detail on what infrastructure should be provided and the scale and form or this provision through Development Plan Documents, Infrastructure Delivery Plans, Supplementary Planning Documents, and masterplans (where appropriate). We agree that these are the appropriate mechanisms for this further level of detail.