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Representation ID: 1249

Received: 11/03/2021

Respondent: Neal Cowan

Planning application 17/05036/MAO was refused in 2017. The Planning Officer set out all the arguments perfectly in his report and all the evidence still stands now. "The site is on green belt if there is a need for new houses this is not the place to build".
Impact on openness and the purposes of the greenbelt says this plan would be harmful.
The northern boundary would allow further sprawl in future years
The views on entering the village on the footpaths crossing the bypass would be lost forever.

It has one of the best open views towards Beamsley in the area and this will be lost forever.
The site is 1.5km+ steeply uphill (60m+) from the school doctors and Coop meaning travel will be by car everywhere.
Curlews are foraging along with the adjoining fields to the north is a nesting site for them.
Drainage from this boggy field is already a problem with streams to north and south boundaries causing flooding lower down Moor lane.
It is within the 2.5 km habitat protection zone for the South Pennine Moors SPA/SCA and within the 2.5 km zone of the North Pennine Moors SPA/SCA.
Traffic is already diabolical on Moor lane, Turner lane and Moor Park drive

Quote from planning enquiry in 2016 (Pre-application Enquiry Response - 16/00804/PMJ)
PROPOSAL: Erection of 28 two storey dwellings
LOCATION: Land At Moor Lane Addingham West Yorkshire
The habitat survey should provide information to enable the Council to undertake an informed Habitat Regulations Assessment (HRA). The site is within 2.4 km from the nearest edge of the South Pennine Moors SPA/SAC (European Site) and is therefore subject to the 2.5 km zone of influence as highlighted in the Habitat Regulations Assessment of the Core Strategy for the Bradford District. Depending on the quality and type of grassland, this site could potentially form 'functionally linked supporting habitat' and therefore appropriate bird surveys will required before the application can be considered.