Object

Representation ID: 29549

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: The Black Family

Agent: Johnson Mowat

Objection to the failure to allocate site KY/002

The Draft Local Plan needs to identify additional sites in order to plan for the housing requirement of 2,300 dwellings per annum i.e. incorporating the 35% uplift.
The site is located on the edge of Keighley Urban Area, which is an identified Principal Town in the settlement hierarchy. It is wholly justified to include an uplift in the housing requirement in Keighley.

The site has been rejected on the grounds of heritage, landscape and limited access. Account has not been taken of the potential reduced developable area to satisfy heritage constraints; there is no landscape evidence to understand the potential landscape impact, nor does this rejection reason account for the potential landscape buffer and additional planting. The Council have clearly not considered information previously submitted which includes a Highways statement indicating that suitable access is achievable.

We disagree with the conclusions of the green Belt Assessment and consider that the overall impact of the site is moderate. The extension of the settlement boundary would form a logical boundary and rounding off to the Se side of Hollins lane.

The proposed reduction of the developable area to mitigate heritage impacts will enable inclusion of substantial open space in the SE third of the site which also provides an opportunity for significant habitat creation and enhancement to biodiversity.

The site is located in close proximity to a number of services and facilities. It has no ownership constraints and deliverable. It has no viability issues and could deliver full S106 requirements.