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Representation ID: 18018

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Harworth Group & Nufarm UK Ltd

Agent: Johnson Mowat

The requirement of NPPF para 137 to fully examine all reasonable options to meeting identified need before concluding that exceptional circumstances exist to justify changes to Green Belt boundaries is recognised.

However, the draft Policy should also reflect that certain development types require sites of a particular scale, type or location that is extremely unlikely to be able to be accommodated in a non-Green Belt location given the extent of the Green Belt across the district and the location of key infrastructure, in particular motorway junctions.

Plan paragraph 3.5.8 sates ‘the main demand for employment land is unlikely to have moved from the Bradford Urban Area (strongly within South East Bradford and M606 corridor) and surrounds’.

Policy SP4 should be amended to read:

‘Third priority to the release of Green Belt land where the locational requirements of particular development necessitate this, to meet identified development need in full and as set out under Policy SP5’.