Object
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 15443
Received: 06/05/2016
Respondent: JTS Partnership LLP
NPPF provides that "the limited infilling or the partial or complete redevelopment of previously developed sites, whether redundant or in continuing use (excluding temporary buildings), which would not have a greater impact on the openness of the Green Belt and the purpose of including land within it than the existing development" can be appropriate development in the Green Belt. Where the draft policy is generally consistent with this guidance it needs to introduce warranted and justified additional criteria (particularly relating to 'sustainability').
Policy is contradictory to the Brownfield Register, which is currently progressing through the House of Lords, and the intentions of the Government to ensure that 90% of brownfield land is redeveloped for housing by 2020.
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