Object

Representation ID: 16727

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Shipley Town Council

The policy should require a housing density of 50 dpha for all sites.

The site capacity assessments of many of the allocated sites do not even meet the housing density requirements of Policy HO2.

The the proposed greenfield land take in the draft Plan is approaching double what it would need to be if all greenfield development were built to the policy-compliant 50dhpa net:

● roughly half of all the proposed greenfield land allocation is a product of low densities, not of meeting development need;

● the majority of Green Belt housing allocations are proposed to be developed well below the densities required by the Plan’s policies relating to density - analysing some of the Green Belt sites indicates net densities averaging around 26 dpha. There is no sound rationale for releasing Green Belt land if the result will be 5,000 homes developed at non-policy compliant densities.