Pluckley Design Statement (.pdf)

This Design Statement has been formally adopted by Ashford Borough Council as Supplementary Planning Guidance. The document expresses the many views held by Pluckley residents involved with its preparation. In adopting the Design Statement the council is not necessarily supporting all of these opinions, but is undertaking to take into consideration the design guidelines included when making planning decisions. The council does not have sufficient powers as a planning authority to require these design guidelines to be met in all cases and the active support and commitment of developers, landowners, and householders is also essential.

The guidance in this document is intended to supplement and support the policies of the Ashford Borough Local Plan 2000.

Ashford Borough Council Local Development Framework & Pluckley Parish Council

Pluckley Parish Council has been carefully following the course of the Local Development Framework and, following a meeting on 3 March 2006 between Ian Grundy (ABC Planning), Andrew Wickham, Ann Murray, and the Clerk to the Council, the parish council wrote formerly to Richard Alderton of Ashford Borough Council requesting that a clause be included within the Ashford Borough Council LDF document, prior to its submission to the government in May, to the effect that “rural villages should not be precluded from future development if such development included proven needed village amenities.”

Any such areas within those villages will not be earmarked until the final details are put out for public consultation in January or February 2007 and those areas will be determined by Ashford Borough Council.

The parish council cannot enter into any consultation with interested landowners if the parish council are desirous to make representations to Ashford Borough Council as to preferred sites as the parish council would be compromised.