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Representation ID: 133

Received: 13/02/2021

Respondent: Miss Margaret Evans

Site ref CO1/H.
It would seem the Council has changed the goal posts in terms of what constitutes protected Green Belt so it can plough on with digging up this ecologically valuable area of land. What is the point of having these safeguards in place when you are going to over turn them without consulting the local people?
This quite frankly shows a complete disregard for local people. All to enable developers to get hugely rich by building houses no local people will be able to afford -the 'affordable' ones will go to landlords.

Sections below have been merged by Local Plan Team from duplicated records submitted by user
1. This land is a flood plain with valuable habitat for red listed species of birds including Curlew, Lapwing and Skylark. It regularly floods to epic proportions. None of the drainage plans put forward will manage this, all they will do is increase the flood risk further down the village, endanger several businesses, homes as well as a hospital and school along the path of Cottingley Beck which in your own words is narrow and a source of flooding. How you can even consider this as an appropriate site is beyond me, represents significant negligence, poor understanding of local connected topography.
2. Why are you still talking about building 155 houses on this site when you have written earlier only 140 are needed and this seems to be without discounting those to be created at the Sun Inn? Is this once again about prioritising developers purses over the well being and mental health of local people already living in the area - they are seemingly clearly unimportant?