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Representation ID: 21764

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Mr J.H. Cove

Plan unsound in relation to Green Belt release in Wharfedale (1,045 dwellings).

Plan not justified and does not meet local infrastructure requirements. Wharfedale does not require this number of homes to meet demand for local employment.

Would make more sense to protect Green belt, revitalising empty homes and make better use of brownfield sites.

Concern over sites AD3/H, AD4/H, IL1/H, IL3/H & BU1/H resulting in virtual ribbon development between Guiseley and Addingham. Creeping urbanisation is a major threat to the environment and damage those qualities that attract visitors and prosperity.

Maintaining open spaces and wildlife is fundamental to environmentally sound and sustainable development. Plan deviates from this.

Plan is disingenuous in promises to improve infrastructure and conflates Green Belt release with them when policies could be implemented independently. No guarantee that these improvements/mitigation will be delivered due to current climate.

Plan offers destruction of the Wharfedale environment with no clear benefit.