Comment
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 14268
Received: 06/04/2016
Respondent: Mr Ian Blackburn
This area has already been severely degraded by development. Conditioning further development in this critical location to simply ameliorating further impacts is simply not good enough. Some thought has gone into a masterplan for the commercial viability (8.21) and travel (8.24) but a far more wide ranging masterplan is essential. Such a masterplan should not just look at on-site minimization of impacts, but at how development can contribute to a restoration of the environment.
The allocation should not go ahead until the need for the scale of the development has been better understood together with a study covering all environmental aspects in the vicinity of the strategic allocation. I suggest this takes in all land west of the B186, south of Warley Road, east of Tomkyns Lane and built up Cranham and north of the B187.
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