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Representation ID: 1953

Received: 17/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Helen Miller

The aims of any Green Belt include to check unrestricted sprawl, to prevent neighbouring towns merging, and to assist in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment. Green Belt are to be used essentially after all other alternatives have failed and only in exceptional circumstances.

The quantity of Green Belt land proposed to be used on the east side of Ilkley in particular breaks all of the aims above, and there is no explanation provided as to why this amounts to “exceptional circumstances”.