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Draft South Pennine Moors SPA/SAC Planning Framework Supplementary Planning Document

Representation ID: 2881

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Bernard Poulter

Representation Summary:

In 2.11" latest standard method for assessing local housing need"This is not correct. The ONS and the National Statistics office are currently reviewing the way in which their work has been misinterpreted by several councils, in view of the migration away from certain cities within the last 4 years. This has not been accuratley reflected in housing Predictions.The Aireborough case highlighted that the use of Greenbelt land was unnecesary.
You state that "With this scale of growth, their is likely to be a number of consequential risks to the moorland and other biodiversity features". All of Burley -in - Wharfedale is situated within 2.5km of the SPA/SAC, and therefore in the most delicate of zones of protection within the polict SC8.
To leap to mitigation strategy that cannot give certainty of protection,I refer to 1.3: "This means that in the absence of certainty, the project/plan should not normally proceed".

Full text:

In 2.11" latest standard method for assessing local housing need"This is not correct. The ONS and the National Statistics office are currently reviewing the way in which their work has been misinterpreted by several councils, in view of the migration away from certain cities within the last 4 years. This has not been accuratley reflected in housing Predictions.The Aireborough case highlighted that the use of Greenbelt land was unnecesary.
You state that "With this scale of growth, their is likely to be a number of consequential risks to the moorland and other biodiversity features". All of Burley -in - Wharfedale is situated within 2.5km of the SPA/SAC, and therefore in the most delicate of zones of protection within the polict SC8.
To leap to mitigation strategy that cannot give certainty of protection,I refer to 1.3: "This means that in the absence of certainty, the project/plan should not normally proceed".