Comment

Representation ID: 29810

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Addingham Parish Council

The Parish Council would emphasise the importance of Addingham’s environment as a material planning consideration in the development of the new Local Plan. The Council would particularly draw your attention to the high quality of the village’s surrounding landscape, as highlighted in our adopted Neighbourhood Plan, which, in this regard, is evidenced by the Landscape Survey commissioned in 2018 by the Parish Council, and also by your own statutory Conservation Area Assessments carried out in February 2004. This key issue is also fully-detailed within the Civic Society’s separate consultation response, which the Parish Council supports.
Addingham is unique and distinct in the local area, compared with nearby larger and major urban settlements, in its location within two Natural Character Areas with special significance for the habitats of wildlife, such as curlews, and their associated foraging zones (internationally designated South & North Pennine Moors Special Protection Areas/Special Areas of Conservation and their protection/foraging zones, which overlap in Addingham, and Local Wildlife Sites in the countryside to the south of the village). The relationship between the landscape and the countryside immediately around and feeding into the village, by way of its green open spaces and footpath network, gives the settlement its particular value and weights the arguments towards continued and enhanced protections for the majority of Addingham’s Green Belt.