Object

Representation ID: 2309

Received: 19/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Joanne Thornton

My reasons are as follows. The site is green belt land, helping to prevent urban sprawl and I don’t feel the council have produced evidence to show there are exceptional circumstances why this area should be built on. Also we are all aware of how flooding impacts on the environment more and more, due in part to the building of houses and roads and drives etc needed alongside, massively impacting on drainage. The surface run off is VERY evident on the lower sections of the field. The abundant wildlife in the area, including bats and deer will also be badly affected. The council need to do better, consider brown field sites, they’ll certainly be a lot flatter to build on than this steep site, requiring a lot of civil engineering and therefore costing more to build on.