Object

Representation ID: 2252

Received: 19/03/2021

Respondent: Mr David Austin

This plan is fine apart from the proposed housing site allocations. I object to Greenbelt being used for housing. Virtually all the proposed sites are Green Belt. This will have a devastating effect on the rich wildlife that the village enjoys. The character of Addingham as a rural population centre will be changed to make it into a suburb of Ilkley.
I understand the Government formula would give Addingham an allocation of 75 houses so I think that an explanation of the extra 100 house is due.
The village is already struggling with existing traffic on the main street which is quite narrow. Parking is necessary to support local shops and businesses and an extra 175 households are only going to make thing worse.
Our Primary School is already oversubscribed so it will need to be expanded to cope with the increased population.