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Representation ID: 2763

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Ian Beardmore

We support CPRE's suggested alternative wording for Policy SP4, please see below:

Policy SP4: Location of Development
A. The Local Plan will adopt a car-free accessibility approach to ensure that new development contributes to the strategic target of significantly reducing car use over the plan period. It will do this by locating new development such that it:
1. Makes walking, cycling and public transport the most attractive and useful travel modes for day-to-day journeys, to achieve 15-minute neighbourhoods;
2. Ensures that the pattern of development improves accessibility and independence for all sectors of society;
3. Takes every possible opportunity to create and enhance green corridors for nature, climate response and active travel;
4. Minimises the dependence of development on any additional road capacity that would otherwise induce additional traffic;
5. Maximises the use of rail and water for uses generating large freight movements.

B. Having identified how to maximize car-free accessibility, the Local Plan will then maximize the efficient use of land, by allocating sites that:
1. are compatible with the settlement hierarchy;
2. give first priority to the re-use of brownfield and under-utilised land within settlements, and second priority to greenfield sites within settlements, while ensuring that development of those does not harm environmental assets or public space;
3. are suitable for development at a minimum of 50 dwellings per hectare net.

C. Where there are insufficient sites within settlements, land will be identified for release from the Green Belt adjacent to settlement boundaries, as set out in policy SP5, so long as those sites fulfil the three criteria in SP4 A and B above.