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Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Public Inquiry - Core Documents

CD1 - EUROPEAN LEGISLATION
CD1/1 Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora 1992 (92/43/EEC) [174 KB]
CD1/2 Article 1 of the First Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights [7 KB]
CD1/3 Directive on the Noise Emission in the Environment by Equipment for Use Outdoors 2000 (2000/14/EC and 2005/88/EC) [384 KB]
CD1/4 Directive on Ambient Air Quality and Cleaner Air for Europe 2008 (2008/50/EC) [195 KB]
CD1/5 Water Framework Directive 2000 (2000/60/EC) [567 KB]
CD2 - UK ACTS OF PARLIAMENT
CD2/1 The Acquisition of Land Act 1981 [254 KB]
CD2/2 Extracts of The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (Full Act) [1,351 KB]
CD2/3 The Highways Act 1980
http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/legResults.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&search
Enacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment
=0&sortAlpha=0&PageNumber=0&NavFrom=0&activeTextDocId=2198137
CD2/4 The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 [306 KB]
CD2/5 The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 [504 KB]
CD2/6 Human Rights Act 1998 [116 KB]
CD2/7 New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 [641 KB]
CD2/8 Extracts of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 (Full Act) [377 KB]
CD2/9 Environmental Protection Act 1990 [1,261 KB]
CD2/10 Noise and Statutory Nuisance Act 1993 [57 KB]
CD2/11 Land Compensation Act 1973 [332 KB]
CD2/12 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 [299 KB]
CD2/13 Environment Act 1995 [925 KB]
CD2/14 Climate Change Act 2008 [353 KB]
CD3 - UK STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
CD3/1 Compulsory Purchase (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 2007 (SI: 2007/3617) [67 KB]
CD3/2 Conservation (Natural Habitat, etc) Regulations 1994 (SI: 1994/2716)
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1994/Uksi_19942716_en_1.htm
CD3/3 Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 (SI: 1999/293) 
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1999/19990293.htm
CD3/4 Compulsory Purchase of Land (Prescribed Forms) (Minister) Regulations 2004 (SI: 2004/2595) [140 KB]
CD3/5 Town and Country Planning Regulations 1992 (SI: 1992/1492)
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1992/Uksi_19921492_en_1.htm
CD3/6 Highways (Inquiries Procedure) Rules 1994 (SI: 1994/3263)
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1994/Uksi_19943263_en_1.htm
CD3/7 Noise Insulation Regulations 1975 (SI: 1975/1763) [61 KB]
CD3/8 Noise Insulation (Amendment) Regulations 1988 (SI: 1988/2000) [11 KB]
CD3/9 Air Quality (England) Regulations 2000 (SI: 2000/928) [23 KB]
CD3/10 Air Quality (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (SI: 2002/3043) [14 KB]
CD3/11 Air Quality Standards Regulations 2007 (SI: 2007/717) [184 KB]
CD3/12 Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003 (SI: 2003/3242) [38 KB]
CD3/13 Control of Pollution (Oil Storage) (England) Regulations 2001 (SI: 2001/2954) [16 KB]
CD3/14 The Renewable Fuel Obligations Order 2007 (SI: 2007/3072) [106 KB]
CD3/15 The Hedgerow Regulations 1997 (SI: 1997/1160) [798 KB]
CD4 - CIRCULARS
CD4/1 Circular 06/04: Compulsory Purchase and the Crichel Down Rules [339 KB]
CD4/2 Costs Circular 09/93: Award of Costs incurred in Planning and other (including compulosry purchase order) Proceedings
CD4/3 Circular 03-2009: Costs Awards in Appeals and other planning procedures [329 KB]
CD5 - PLANNING POLICY STATEMENTS AND PLANNING POLICY GUIDANCE NOTES
CD5/1 PPS1: Delivering Sustainable Development and Supplement on Climate Change (2007) [360 KB]
CD5/2 PPS3: Housing (2006) [207 KB]
CD5/3 Not used
CD5/4 PPS7: Sustainable Development in Rural Areas (2004) [257 KB]
CD5/5 PPS9: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation (2005) [231 KB]
CD5/6 PPS23: Planning and Pollution Control (2004) [235 KB]
CD5/7 PPS25: Development and Flood Risk (2006) [210 KB]
CD5/8 PPG4: Industrial, Commercial Development and Small Firms (1992) [41 KB]
CD5/9 PPG13: Transport (2001) [88 KB]
CD5/10 PPG15: Planning and the Historic Environment (1994) [204 KB]
CD5/11 PPG16: Archaeology and Planning (1990) [60 KB]
CD5/12 PPG24: Planning and Noise (2004) [78 KB]
CD5/13 Government White Paper- The Future of Transport: A Network for 2030 (July 2004) [1,078 KB]
CD5/14 First Soil Action Plan for England: 2004-2006 [431 KB]
CD5/15 Consultation PPS4: Planning for Prosperous Economies (May 2009) [440 KB]
CD5/16 Government White Paper- A New Deal for Transport: Better for Everyone (July 1998) [868 KB]
CD5/17 Roads Review: A New Deal for Trunk Roads in England (July 1998) [414 KB]
CD5/18 Department for Transport / Welsh Office Memorandum "Calculation of Road Traffic Noise" (1988) [2,127 KB]
CD5/19 Department of the Environment Advisory Leaflet 72 "Noise Control on Building Sites" (1978) [335 KB]
CD5/20 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Update of Noise Database for Prediction of Noise on Construction and Open Sites (2005) [101 KB]
CD5/21 British Standards Institution: Code of Practice for Noise and Vibration Control on Construction and Open Sites- Part 1: Noise BS 5228-1 (2009) [586 KB]
CD5/22 British Standards Institution: Code of Practice for Noise and Vibration Control on Construction and Open Sites- Part 2: Vibration BS 5228-2 (2009) [325 KB]
CD5/23 British Standards Institution: Guide to Evaluation of Human Exposure to Vibration in Buildings Part 1: Vibration sources other than blasting BS 6472-1 (2008) [653 KB]
CD5/24 The Landscape Institute and the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment: Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (2nd Edition: 2002)
CD5/25 The Landscape Institute: Use of Photography and Photomontage in Landscape and Visual Assessment: Advice Note 01/09 (2009) [47 KB]
CD5/26 Landscape Character Assessment Guidance for England and Scotland: Scottish Natural Heritage and the Countryside Agency, C Swanick and Land Use Consultants (2000) [2,829 KB]
CD5/27 Department of Communities and Local Government: Lighting in the Countryside- Towards Good Practice (1997) [1,502 KB]
CD5/28 The Institute of Lighting Engineers: Guidance Notes for the Reduction of Obtrusive Light (2005) [87 KB]
CD5/29 Natural England: National Character Areas Map (2005) [249 KB]
CD5/30 Minerals Policy Statement 2: Controlling and Mitigating the Environmental Effects of Mineral Extraction in England (2006) [729 KB]
CD5/31
Air Quality Strategy for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (2007)  - Volume 1 [1,644 KB]
 - Volume 2 [1,431 KB]
CD5/32 National Society for Clean Air’s Development Control: Planning for Air Quality (2006) [1,616 KB]
CD5/33 Department for Energy and Climate Change: UK Low Carbon Transition Plan (2009) [4,088 KB]
CD5/34 Not used
CD5/35 Department for Transport: Low Carbon Transport: A Greener Future (2009) [1,294 KB]
CD5/36 Environment Agency: Carbon Calculator for Construction Activities (NB: Microsoft Excel File ) [826 KB]
CD5/37 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: The UK Climate Change Programme 2006 [1,084 KB]
CD5/38 Not used
CD5/39 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Local Air Quality Management Technical Guidance LAQM.TG (February 2009) [2,493 KB]
CD5/40 PPS25 Development and Flood Risk- Practice Guide (2008) [1,051 KB]
CD5/41 PPG25 Development and Flood Risk (2001) [188 KB]
CD5/42 Draft PPS15 Consultation Paper: Planning for the Historic Environment (July 2009) [419 KB]
CD5/43 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Consultation on a draft Code of Practice for the sustainable use of soils on construction sites (July 2008) [729 KB]
CD5/44 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Safeguarding our Soils (September 2009) [486 KB]
CD5/45 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Sustainable Use of Soils on Construction Sites (September 2009) [714 KB]
CD6 - REGIONAL PLANNING GUIDANCE
CD6/1
RPG9: Regional Planning Guidance for the South East (March 2001), including Chapter 9: Regional Transport Strategy  - RPG9 [2,922 KB]
 - Chapter 9 [1,342 KB]
CD6/2 The Final Regional Spatial Strategy: The South East Plan (May 2009) [2,994 KB]
CD6/3 The Regional Economic Strategy 2006-2016 (2006) [2,481 KB]
CD6/4 London Best Practice Guidance: The Control of Dust and Emissions from Construction and Demolition (2006) [487 KB]
CD7 - LOCAL POLICY
CD7/1 East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Structure Plan 1991-2011 (Saved Policies) (1999) [2,770 KB]
CD7/2 East Sussex Local Transport Plan 2006-2011 (July 2006) [7,442 KB]
CD7/3 Rother District Local Plan (July 2006) [446 KB]
CD7/4 Hastings Local Plan (Saved Policies) (2004) [1,259 KB]
CD7/5 Prosperity for Bexhill and Hastings, DTZ Report (October 2001) [684 KB]
CD7/6 Hastings and Bexhill Five Point Plan, DTZ Final Report (March 2002) [8,435 KB]
CD7/7 Sea Space Business Plan (November 2003) [1,485 KB]
CD7/8 “You and Your Future in Hastings and Bexhill”, Leaflet (February 2002) [313 KB]
CD7/9 South Coast Multi Modal Study Final Report (August 2002) [3,062 KB]
CD7/10 Hastings Strategy Development Plan (August 2002) [183 KB]
CD7/11 Rother District Council Local Development Framework- Core Strategy (Consolation on Strategy Directions) (October 2008) [1,582 KB]
CD7/12 Hastings Local Development Framework- Shaping Hastings; Core Strategy Preferred Approaches (May 2008) [409 KB]
CD7/13 North East Bexhill Masterplan SPD - draft (2007) [364 KB]
CD7/14 East Sussex Strategic Partnership Local Area Agreement 2006-2009 [1,675 KB]
CD7/15 East Sussex Strategic Partnership Local Area Agreement 2008-2011 [142 KB]
CD7/16 Access to Hastings Multi-Modal Study (November 2000) [1,167 KB]
CD7/17 East Sussex County Council Climate Change Strategy for East Sussex, September 2009 [1,115 KB]
CD7/18 East Sussex County Structure Plan (adopted in 1975) [4,436 KB]
CD7/19 East Sussex County Structure Plan (as approved by the Secretary of State in 1978) [4,966 KB]
CD7/20 Policies HBA11, HBA13 and HBA15 from the East Sussex County Structure Plan (1982) [3,003 KB]
CD7/21 East Sussex County Structure Plan (1985) [3,090 KB]
CD7/22 East Sussex County Structure Plan (1991) [8,652 KB]
CD7/23 Panel Report for the Examination in Public for the 1975 East Sussex County Structure Plan [4,439 KB]
CD7/24 Inspector’s Report into the Rother District Council Local Plan (2005) [1,122 KB]
CD7/25 East Sussex County Council Landscape Assessment (2004) [273 KB]
CD7/26 East Sussex County Council: Remoteness at the Local Scale, An Application in East Sussex (1997) [1,021 KB]
CD7/27 North East Bexhill Masterplan SPD (2009) [2,847 KB]
CD7/28 East Sussex County Council Waste Local Plan (2006) [2,180 KB]
CD7/29 Bexhill Local Plan (1985) [1,166 KB]
CD7/30 Rother District Council Local Air Quality Management Progress Report (2008) [1,196 KB]
CD7/31 Hastings Borough Council Air Quality Action Plan for the Bexhill Road Air Quality Management Area [2,674 KB]
CD7/32 Hastings Borough Council Local Air Quality Management Progress Report (2007/2008) [83 KB]
CD7/33 Rother District Council Strategic Flood Risk Assessment- Level 1 (April 2008) [7,907 KB]
CD7/34 Hastings Borough Council Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (August 2008) [3,276 KB]
CD7/35 Hastings and Rother Employment Strategy and Land Review, May 2008 [541 KB]
CD7/36 Hastings County Borough Town Development Scheme Explanatory Report (September 2971) [1,645 KB]
CD7/37 Extract from North Bexhill Strategic Framework, 1993 (Chapter 3, Roads and Access) [296 KB]
CD7/38 Pebsham Countryside Park Project Development Strategy, March 2008 [967 KB]
CD8 - SITE CITATIONS AND NOTIFICATIONS
CD8/1 Designation of Marline Valley Woods SSSI (1989) [25 KB]
CD8/2 Designation of Combe Valley SSSI (1985) [10 KB]
CD9 - APPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING PERMISSION AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS
CD9/1
Applications for planning permission for the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road and supporting documentation:
(A) The planning application for the Scheme, plans and drawings and related correspondence (May 2007)
http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/environment/planning/applications/
register/Detail .aspx?appno=RR/2474/CC(EIA)&typ=dmw_planning
(B) Environmental Statement including appendices, Non-Technical Summary, Regeneration Statement, Sustainability Report, Traffic and Transport Report, Waste Management Report and Design and Access Statement (May 2007)
http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/environment/planning/applications/
register/Detail .aspx?appno=RR/2474/CC(EIA)&typ=dmw_planning
(C) IEMA Report on the Environmental Statement [97 KB]
(D) Environmental Statement Addendum (August 2008)
http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/environment/planning/applications/
register/Detail.aspx?appno=RR/2474/CC(EIA)&typ=dmw_planning
(E) Design and Access Statement Addendum (August 2008) [11,748 KB]
(F) Regeneration Statement Addendum (August 2008) [73 KB]
(G) Traffic and Transport Report Addendum (August 2008) [65 KB]
(H) Flood Risk Assessment Report (August 2008)
http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/environment/planning/applications/
register/Detail.aspx?appno=RR/2474/CC(EIA)&typ=dmw_planning
(I) Supplementary Report - Hydrology (August 2008) [1,051 KB]
(J) Supplementary Nature Conservation Report (October 2008)
http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/environment/planning/applications/
register/Detail.aspx?appno=RR/2474/CC(EIA)&typ=dmw_planning
CD9/2 Application for Listed Building Consent [1,910 KB]
CD9/3 Report by Head of Planning to East Sussex County Council Planning Committee dated 10 December 2008 relating to the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road [447 KB]
CD9/4 Report by Head of Planning to East Sussex County Council Planning Committee dated 10 December 2008 relating to the Listed Building Consent [142 KB]
CD9/5 Minutes of East Sussex County Council Planning Committee of 10 December 2008 [57 KB]
CD9/6 Report by Director of Transport and Environment to Cabinet dated 16 December 2008 [5,541 KB]
CD9/7 Minutes of Cabinet Meeting of 16 December 2008 [20 KB]
CD9/8 Report by Director of Transport and Environment to Cabinet dated 26 January 2008 [13 KB]
CD9/9 Minutes of Cabinet Meeting of 26 January 2009 [109 KB]
CD9/10 Letter dated 3 February 2009 from Government Office for the South-East regarding the Secretary of State’s decision not to call in the planning application [340 KB]
CD9/11 Listed building consent (January 2009) [194 KB]
CD9/12 Local Transport Plan Major Scheme Business Case (May 2009)
http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/roadsandtransport/bexhillhastingslinkroad/
cpo/applicationdownloads.htm
CD9/12a Local Transport Plan Major Scheme Business Case: Updated Information (August 2009) [466 KB]
CD9/12b Local Transport Plan Major Scheme Business Case: Updated Information Explanatory Note (August 2009) [22 KB]
CD9/13
Insp. AS Jeapes’ Report for the A259 Pevensey to Bexhill Improvement, A259 Bexhill and Hastings Western Bypass and A259 Hastings Eastern Bypass (Date of inquiries 31 October 1995 - 18 July 1996) Part 1 [7,423 KB]
Part 2 [7,596 KB]
Part 3 [7,950 KB]
CD9/14 Secretary of State Letter- A259 Pevensey to Bexhill Improvement, A259 Bexhill and Hastings Western Bypass and A259 Hastings Eastern Bypass (July 1998) [979 KB]
CD9/15 Secretary of State Letter- A259 Pevensey to Bexhill Improvement, A259 Bexhill and Hastings Western Bypass and A259 Hastings Eastern Bypass (August 2001) [17 KB]
CD9/15a Press Release from the Department for Transport on Multi-Modal Transport Study (12 July 2001)
CD9/16 Secretary of State’s decision on the Access to Hastings Study (July 2001) [19 KB]
CD9/17 Secretary of State’s decision on the South Coast Multi-Modal Study (July 2003) [19 KB]
CD9/18 Local Transport Plan Provisional Funding Approval for the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road (December 2004) [555 KB]
CD9/19 Minutes of South East England Regional Transport Board Meeting dated 26 October 2007 [61 KB]
CD9/20 South East England Regional Transport Board Funding Advice dated 27 February 2009 [7,582 KB]
CD9/21 Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
http://www.standardsforhighways.co.uk/dmrb/
CD9/21a Volume 13 [519 KB]
CD9/22 Transport Analysis Guidance, DfT
http://www.dft.gov.uk/webtag/
CD9/23 The Green Book, The Treasury [389 KB]
CD9/24 Review of Sub-National Economic Development and Regeneration 2007 [761 KB]
CD9/25 Indices of Multiple Deprivation (2007) [833 KB]
CD9/26 Secretary of State’s Written Answer to a Parliamentary Question regarding the refusal of the Eastern and Western Bypass Schemes (July 2001) [83 KB]
CD9/27 Letter from Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs responding to public consultation on the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road dated 14 January 2008 [95 KB]
CD9/28 Major Scheme Business Case Submission, July 2004
CD9/29 Letter from the Secretary of State regarding funding for the BHLR dated 6 July 2006 [100 KB]
CD9/30 Letter from the Regional Transport Board to the Secretary of State dated November 2007 [37 KB]
CD9/31 Letter from the Secretary of State regarding the BHLR dated 7 January 2008 [52 KB]
CD9/32 East Sussex County Council, Regeneration Report, October 2009 [6,123 KB]
CD9/33 Unilateral Undertaking entered into by East Sussex County Council dated 28 July 2009 in favour of Hastings Borough Council and Rother District Council [1,650 KB]
CD9/34 Decision Notice for the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Scheme dated 29 July 2009 [91 KB]
CD9/35 Letter from the Highways Agency to Rother District Council dated 20 September 2004 [220 KB]
CD9/36 Consultation Responses from English Heritage, Environment Agency and Natural England on the Route Proposals for the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road [832 KB]
CD9/37 Sea Space: Evaluation of Early Wins and Phase Two Projects- Final Report, Grant Thornton UK LLP, August 2008 [1,105 KB]
CD9/38 Stage 1 Road Safety Audit, Designers Response and Exceptions Report (October 2009) [1,387 KB]
CD9/39 Departures from Standards Report and East Sussex County Council Acceptance (October 2009) [919 KB]
CD9/40 Letter from Department for Transport re-confirming approval of funding for the BHLR dated 9 October 2009 [163 KB]
CD9/41 WHO Guidelines for Community Noise, Berglund, Lindvall, Schwela (1999) [388 KB]
CD9/42 Campaign to Protect Rural England: Saving Tranquil Places (2006) [373 KB]
CD9/43 Campaign to Protect Rural England: Mapping Tranquillity (2005) [788 KB]
CD9/44 Not used
CD9/45 University of Bath: Inventory of Carbon and Energy, Version 1.6a (Prof. Hammond and Jones) [1,396 KB]
CD9/46 University of Birmingham: Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom: Third Report of the Quality of Urban Air Review Group (1996) [1,793 KB]
CD9/47 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road – Hydraulic Modelling, Bullen Consultants Ltd, Report 13C028/01/A, July 2004 [1,373 KB]
CD9/48 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Dormouse Survey (August 2009) (Document not available here, please contact the Link Road Project Team)
CD9/49 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Badger Bait Marking Study of Sett 24, August 2009 (Document not available here, please contact the Link Road Project Team)
CD9/50 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Badger Bait Marking Study, August 2009 (Document not available electronically, please contact the Link Road Project Team)
CD9/51 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Updated Badger Activity Survey, August 2009 (Document not available here, please contact the Link Road Project Team)
CD9/52 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Bat Surveys 2008, August 2009 (Document not available here, please contact the Link Road Project Team)
CD9/53 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Bat Surveys 2009, November 2009 (Document not available here, please contact the Link Road Project Team)
CD9/54 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Great Crested Newt Mitigation Strategy, August 2009 (Document not available here, please contact the Link Road Project Team)
CD9/55 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Water Vole Survey, August 2009 (Document not available here, please contact the Link Road Project Team)
CD9/56 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Technical Note, Great Crested Newt Survey, September 2009 (Document not available here, please contact the Link Road Project Team)
CD9/57 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Breeding Bird Survey, August 2009 (Document not available here, please contact the Link Road Project Team)
CD9/58 Bexhill to Hastings Link Road Reptile Mitigation Strategy, August 2009 (Document not available here, please contact the Link Road Project Team)
CD9/59 Letter from Regional Transport Board to Department for Transport regarding funding dated 27 July 2009 [29 KB]
CD10 - CPO DOCUMENTS
CD10/1 CPO and Order Maps (Maps Only) [2,850 KB]
CD10/2 Planning CPO and Order Maps (Maps Only) [1,754 KB]
CD10/3 Side Roads Order and Order Maps (Maps Only) [1,068 KB]
CD10/4 Statement of Reasons- East Sussex County Council [155 KB]
CD10/5 Statement of Case- East Sussex County Council [264 KB]
CD10/6 Not Used
CD10/7 Scheme Navigation Plans [1,535 KB]
CD10/8 Composite Bundle of Plans [5,574 KB]
CD10/9 Log of Objection letters prepared by East Sussex County Council [1,093 KB]