This is your opportunity to have your say about the Penn Parish Neighbourhood Plan

There are 13 questions giving you the opportunity to agree or disagree with the policies that make up the Neighbourhood Plan, share your comments about each element and comment on the Plan overall.

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* 1. Your Details

*We collect your postcodeto show the official who examines the Neighbourhood Plan where responses have come from within the Parish. Your comments will be anonymous and your details will not be shared.

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* 2. Policy 1 and the Design Code set out clear design requirements so that planning applications must respond to local character, to raise the quality of design.

Do you agree or disagree with raising character and quality in new developments?

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* 3. Policy 2 identifies existing buildings in the Parish that have a local historic significance, and ensures that alterations must respect the character of these buildings.

Do you agree or disagree with protecting the character of these buildings?

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* 4. Policy 3 requires higher energy standards for new buildings to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Do you agree or disagree with higher energy standards?

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* 5. Policy 3 also requires greater tree planting, and the provision of more space for nature.

Do you agree or disagree with more space for nature?

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* 6. Policy 4 requires that a high proportion of new dwellings must be smaller, 2-3 bedroom, to rebalance the supply of smaller homes in the Parish, to support first time buyers and those looking to downsize.

Do you agree or disagree?

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* 7. Policy 5 identifies land in the Parish that supports nature recovery, resisting applications that harm or degrade this network.

Do you agree or disagree?

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* 8. Policy 6 deals with open spaces. Most open spaces in the parish are in the Green Belt, so already protected, but six are not. This policy designates these ‘local green spaces’ so that they will also have green belt protection.

Do you agree or disagree?

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* 9. Policy 6 also identifies 28 ‘local amenity spaces’. These are already all Green Belt, Common Land or Village Green, and the policy will protect their wider recreational or amenity value to the community.

Do you agree or disagree?

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* 10. Policy 7 supports existing businesses to protect the jobs in the Parish, and would not allow these sites to be changed to residential uses.

Do you agree or disagree?

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* 11. Policy 8 identifies community uses in the Parish, including Pubs, and stops them changing to residential.

Do you agree or disagree?

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* 12. Policy 9 identifies a sustainable travel network which developments must enhance and not harm.

Do you agree or disagree?

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* 13. Please share any comments you have about the Neighbourhood Plan as a whole

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