Object

Representation ID: 29811

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Addingham Parish Council

The draft Plan seeks to align the Core Strategy with a settlement hierarchy “which ensures that development quantums reflect the role and function of settlements, and their accessibility to jobs, services and public transport.” (para. 3.8.32)

The Parish Council welcomes this overall aim for the Plan’s Local Area strategy for Addingham, and also supports the objectives for its key elements.

However, the Council does not recognise the presumption that this particular area should contain 8 new housing sites in order to meet these objectives. The Council notes that within the Plan’s settlement hierarchy Addingham is categorised as a local service centre, due to attract a reduced scale of growth compared with urban areas. As a local service centre, not a principal town, any development should reflect its designation.

The Parish Council would recommend a review of the Local Area strategy, to base it on properly evidenced and updated data and to bring it into line with the settlement hierarchy, with a view to reinstating the relative position of Addingham within the hierarchy, as a local service centre, attracting a lower proportion of the district-wide housing growth target provision.