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Representation ID: 29783

Received: 25/03/2021

Respondent: Ilkley Town Council

The main concerns regarding this site are:

- The level of habitat, landscape character and surface water flood risk/drainage mitigation plus the need for replacement of an area of open space of high visual amenity and biodiversity and tree cover with compensatory Green Belt enhancement and a new area to replace that which would be unnecessarily destroyed in order to achieve a development with limited accessibility to local services and a need to depend on cars begs the question as to why this site has been included.

- On traffic and transport criteria, this site is unsuitable for development. The main access to the A65 for this site is via the Ben Rhydding railway bridge. This is already a pinch point in the local network, which will undoubtedly be exacerbated by the development of a significant number of houses on the site. It is somewhat distant (600M) from more frequent buses along Bolling Rd.

- the site is not suitable re encouraging walking and cycling - its is steep. Schools are not within walking distance for small children.