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Representation ID: 28306

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

Site NW/024 - Green Belt Assessment

The Green Belt site specific assessment concludes that NW/024 is located in a ‘moderate’ performing green belt parcel and the site has a ‘major’ potential impact on the Green Belt.

We disagree with the overall conclusion that the site has a ‘major’ potential impact on the Green Belt, and consider this should be reduced to a ‘moderate’ impact.
There is potential to create a strong, durable and defensible Green Belt boundary to the west via appropriate design and boundary planting. This will create a new edge to the North West sub area boundary.

The potential to create a defensible boundary will reduce the potential for further sprawl in a westerly direction towards Wilsden. The design potential does not appear to be taken into consideration in the Green Belt assessment, when concluding a ‘major’ impact against the ‘potential for sprawl criteria.

The Broadway Malyan, Bradford Growth Assessment, dated 2013 concluded that there is still potential for some development in the area while maintaining the overarching role of the Green Belt. Furthermore the Growth Assessment acknowledged that Green Belt growth locations in the area could lie in locations to the west (to the north west and north of Allerton and surrounding Heaton and Sandy Lane). This includes SLA site NW/024.

We agree with assessment which refer to the opportunities for compensatory improvement which references contributions to the public rights of way network and several footpaths traversing the site.