Community Plan
Comments under the "Planning" category
- Ease planning restrictions on converting barns/outbuildings to housing. Place restrictions on houses being bought as second homes. Affordable housing for local occupancy. Respond
- LDNPA brought into 21st century by relaxing planning rules to allow energy efficient usage. Respond
- Local occupancy clauses are starting to cause problems for local people who need to move. Housing associations and private landlords often have a get out clause and can let to anyone if the property has been empty for 3/6 months. Meantime owner occupiers have no get out plus lose their sale. Local occupancy clauses should be removed from all owner occupier property. They are a disincentive to buyers, in spite of being unenforceable. They cause hardship for lock people without providing 'affordable' housing. Many are on quit expensive properties. Respond
- Need more sites for local needs housing - revisit some of sites previously looked at to see if could be made suitable e.g. A590/Thwaites Lane junction. Open area Droomer/Claife Close (put houses on top of garages). Respond
- More affordable housing. Prevent previous council houses being resold as 2nd homes. Legislation for sale into 2nd homes to be change of use. Higher council tax for 2nd homes. More diverse employment opportunities to cut down dependency on tourism. Make better use of local library as a community and educational resource. More opportunities for apprenticeships in local building, gardening, plumbing firms etc. More local Government support for insulation and fuel saving measures. Respond
- Let's allow barns to be converted into affordable homes. Respond