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Representation ID: 10953

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: P&D Northern Asset Management

Agent: Pegasus Group (Manchester)

Housing Distribution - Queensbury

Queensbury should retain its Growth Area status as endorsed through the adopted Core Strategy and be subject to an uplift over and above the basic population baseline position and retain its target of 1,000 homes.

Within the Draft Local Plan Queensbury is now ranked 4th place out of 6 Local Growth Centres with just 450 homes. This is a significant change (55% reduction) that is not justified with any robust evidence. It would result in Queensbury’s population growing by circa 10% whereas most of the other Local Growth Centres (bar Steeton) will see a 20%+ increase. This is despite Queensbury being the largest of all the Local growth Centres by some margin and arguably being the most sustainable of all the Local Growth Centres due to the range of services it contains.

Investment decisions will have been made on the back of the Core Strategy spatial distribution of homes and the Council have not formally advertised through a revised LDS that they seek to amend the adopted spatial strategy.