Object

Representation ID: 1950

Received: 17/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Helen Miller

1. Serious concerns about the short notice period, inappropriate timing, online-only nature of the consultation (excluding many residents) and difficulties in meeting with and fully informing local residents of the proposals contained in the Draft Local Plan due to the Covid-19 restrictions;


2.The claim that BDMC actually needs 1700 new dwellings every year is open to robust challenge not least because of evidence of falling, not rising, population estimates;

3. Despite everything in the Draft Local Plan concerning climate change, environmental sustainability, green infrastructure and the huge importance of the Green Belt, 97% of the new homes proposed for Ilkley, (305 out of 314), are to be built on that very Green Belt. This is of such seriousness and has such far-reaching consequences that it cannot be allowed to slip through unchallenged – once this land is removed from the Green Belt it is quite simply too late.