Comment
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 15379
Received: 06/05/2016
Respondent: Robert Mulholland & Co Ltd
Agent: JTS Partnership LLP
The Council should follow a hierarchical approach to identifying land to meet residential need, along the following lines:
1. Existing urban areas
2. Existing developed sites in Green Belt
3. Review of Green Belt boundaries to ensure consistency with para 84 and 85 NPPG guidance. Boundaries to follow clear, recognisable, physical features and Green Belt not to include land which is unnecessary to keep open (such as land surrounded by development or which is part of a settlement).
4. Release of sites on the edge of existing settlements.
5. New settlements (Dutton Garden Suburb).
It is only by following a hierarchical approach, and analysing the impact on the Green Belt at each stage, that the Council can assure itself that the overall impact of the Green Belt will be minimised.
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