New National Landscape Association Guidance on meeting Section 85 CROW Act obligations in Planning has just been published.

This will be sent out to all Planning Heads and planning contacts in Policy & Development Management in the Local Planning Authorities who work within the Dedham Vale and Suffolk Coast & Heaths AONBs.  Parish Councils are also Relevant Authorities so they must comply too with the strengthened duty.

ECC/Essex Highways ignored the recommendations of their Heritage Assessment for sympathetic repair of the bridge and, as a result, have failed to demonstrate how they have complied with the strengthened duty.

Save our Bridge!