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Representation ID: 16294

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Keighley Town Council

The council is concerned that this site cannot be considered on its own without first assessing the impact on the land surrounding the site.

The council believes this site would quickly become a gateway site to allow further access to the green fields surrounding it. This can easily be seen by the development of Golden View Drive, where the same development creep has occurred piece by piece. This is the very purpose of the greenbelt to stop this development creep and urban sprawl. The impact assessment or local plan policies fail to address these issues in any meaningful way.

This site if developed would meet up with the proposed site on Moss Carr Road of 103 dwellings thereby taking a large section of the green space away from the village and sprawling further down the valley to the dual carriage way. These two sites would surround the cricket field and could compromise the rights of way down to Bingley.