Comment
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 14304
Received: 11/04/2016
Respondent: J M Gillingham
Figure 5.4 'Greenfield sites in Green Belt' box
The Dunton Hills Garden Village should not be part of the Plan. Instead attention should be turned to increasing the use of Urban areas and Brownfield sites in Green Belt. Nevertheless it may well be the case that some Greenfield sites in Green Belt will have to be developed, but this should be approached in a more sophisticated way.
I agree with the idea of development being in reach of services. However the idea that development growth be directed to transport corridors is repeatedly cited and is probably the main plank of the Plan e.g. Policy S01 and 5.1 so to constrain development by that same piece of infrastructure seems remarkably contradictory. The reasons given seem very simplistic and undermining of the role of the Local Plan.
See attached.