Object

Representation ID: 29437

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: The Black Family

Agent: Johnson Mowat

Objection to the failure to allocate site KY/003 in full

The Draft Local Plan needs to identify additional sites in order to plan for the housing requirement of 2,300 dwellings per annum. The majority of the site is located within the Keighley Urban Area, which is an identified Principal Town in the settlement hierarchy. The majority of the site is safeguarded in the RUDP for future development.

This site has been considered suitable for development for a number of years including in both the UDP and RUDP. Extracts from the 2004 RUDP Inspector's Report are provided

Site KY/003 has not been rejected in the SLA, part of the site is an identified preferred housing allocation (KY1/H) and it is considered wholly logical to include the remaining parcel of KY/003 as a deliverable housing site in the Local Plan.

There has been no sustainability appraisal undertaken of the site, however the sustainability appraisal scoring for Site KY1/H should be similar to this wider land parcel.

We are confident that a sensitive scheme is achievable, that is capable of mitigating potential heritage harm, via appropriate design and retention of openness where required.

The land constitutes a logical inclusion as a housing allocation, to the well-served and well-located north west Keighley urban area, which would include a minor Green Belt deletion, to allow the creation of a logical urban edge to this part of the Keighley urban area and stronger more durable Green Belt boundary.