If Yes, please copy and paste and complete the comments section as before. Comment 15 Please indicate the document and specific page, section or policy and paragraph you are commenting on: x Draft Local Plan: Strategy and Sites ☐ Sustainability Appraisal Page number/s:* 110, 111 Section/Policy number:* BE3 Paragraph: 371 Do you support, oppose or have general comments about this part of the document?* Support ☐ ☐ Oppose x Comment Please provide your comments below: * Sustainable Water Use Page 110 Policy BE3. WVPS supports the requirement to be placed by building regulation of a water consumption standard of 110 litres per person per day. Para 371 should recognise that current demand within the Loddon Catchment means that of the “water available for licensing”, at times currently 50% of the Loddon flow is treated effluent with its consequential impact upon the river ecology. Abstraction from the chalk aquifers at Greywell is also deemed to be having a detrimental impact upon the SSSI at Greywell Fen and this source may have to close. Low water levels are also due to the abstraction of 500 million gallons per annum from the aquifers that feed the river. Whilst the plan appears to support these valuable resources, any unnecessary increase in housing numbers will increase the environmental damage in this water stressed area. The plan should make sure that financial contributions arising from developments near to the river should in part be directed towards mitigating the detrimental impact of such developments. Do you wish to comment on another part of the consultation? * x Yes ☐ No If Yes, please copy and paste and complete the comments section as before.
If Yes, please copy and paste and complete the comments section as before. Comment 15 Please indicate the document and specific page, section or policy and paragraph you are commenting on: x Draft Local Plan: Strategy and Sites ☐ Sustainability Appraisal Page number/s:* 110, 111 Section/Policy number:* BE3 Paragraph: 371 Do you support, oppose or have general comments about this part of the document?* ☐ Support ☐ Oppose x Comment Please provide your comments below: * Sustainable Water Use Page 110 Policy BE3. WVPS supports the requirement to be placed by building regulation of a water consumption standard of 110 litres per person per day. Para 371 should recognise that current demand within the Loddon Catchment means that of the “water available for licensing”, at times currently 50% of the Loddon flow is treated effluent with its consequential impact upon the river ecology. Abstraction from the chalk aquifers at Greywell is also deemed to be having a detrimental impact upon the SSSI at Greywell Fen and this source may have to close. Low water levels are also due to the abstraction of 500 million gallons per annum from the aquifers that feed the river. Whilst the plan appears to support these valuable resources, any unnecessary increase in housing numbers will increase the environmental damage in this water stressed area. The plan should make sure that financial contributions arising from developments near to the river should in part be directed towards mitigating the detrimental impact of such developments. Do you wish to comment on another part of the consultation? * x Yes ☐ No If Yes, please copy and paste and complete the comments section as before.
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