THE Alphington Development Brief has been adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) by the city's executive.
Richard Short, Exeter's assistant director of city development, told the executive that the relatively low number of responses about the brief (32) was probably due to extensive local consultation already undertaken on the proposals over the last two years, which included exhibitions, surveys, and the five workshops carried out with the Alphington Village Forum committee members. Many of the requests made by the Forum had already been incorporated, resulting in lowering the average net density of housing from 50 dwellings per hectare to a maximum of 35, which means that the number of new homes is unlikely to be more than 400. The original number stated in the Exeter Core Strategy was 'up to 500'.
The Forum had requested that the Brief include a ban on construction traffic driving through the village, which was tabled by Cllr Clark and agreed at an earlier Planning Member Working Group on 10 June.
The City Council will also continue to work with Devon County Highways to investigate the potential for a long-term ban on HGV/LGVs travelling through Alphington.
Juliet Meadowcroft. chairman of the Forum, attended the meeting and reported: "The Forum also requested a financial contribution through the Section 106 Agreement towards the provision of a safe pedestrian and cycle path along the length of Chudleigh Road.
"The means to fund this improvement to the future route to and from the proposed school on the south of the A379 is being discussed by City Council and county highways officers and the Brief will be amended to reflect this.
"No final decision has yet been made on the proposed single-campus through school, which has been strongly opposed by Exeter City Council for several serious reasons, including the severing of the new community by the major arterial road even if a bridge is built over it, and also the long and dangerous walk for primary school children from the new Alphington homes."
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