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Representation ID: 506

Received: 02/10/2013

Respondent: JTS Partnership LLP

Agent: JTS Partnership LLP

It is noted that the Borough Council has decided to place greater emphasis on the need to protect the Green Belt, than the need to provide for full OAN. As a result, the policy makes provision for 3,500 new dwellings against an interim OAN of 4,962 to 5,600 dwellings (331 to 373 homes a year). The fact that the Council has decided to plan for a figure well below this figure makes it all the more important that it maximises, in order of preference, the potential of:
a) existing developed sites within the urban areas;
b) suitable undeveloped sites within the urban areas;
c) suitable existing developed sites in the Green Belt; and,
d) suitable undeveloped sites in the Green Belt (i.e. sites which fulfil no, or only a limited, green belt function and which should be identified for residential development following a limited review of green belt boundaries). It is the Company‟s view that the Council will need to identify sites falling within all of the above four categories if it is to produce a "sound‟ Local Plan.