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Representation ID: 30255

Received: 12/03/2021

Respondent: Justin Whitehorn & Richard Robinson-Horley

Agent: WBW Surveyors Limited

Rejected Site – BI/050
The land should be added to the Preferred Housing Site Allocations for Bingley and identified as a housing site by the new Local Plan.
The land should also be released from the Green Belt to allow its development for housing under Policy SP5.
The site assessment indicates that the site was not allocated due to ‘Landscape Impact’ and ‘Heritage Impact’.

Landscape Impact
- Site is enclosed by other built development. In particular, the allotments to the north. Landscape impacts on the wider open countryside would be very minimal.

Heritage Impact
Laythorpe Farm is the nearest Listed Building and is located the south east. The building is located within the Sty Lane housing development site that permits the erection of 420-440 houses. Development on this current proposed site, to the west of Micklethwaite Lane, will therefore have no impact on the setting of the listed building given that it will be enclosed and directly adjacent to other permitted housing development.
The site is within the Leeds to Liverpool Canal Conservation Area and land to the north of the site, also forms part of the Micklethwaite Conservation Area.
The Leeds to Liverpool Canal Conservation Area is a long linear designation that comprises a variety of different land uses adjacent to the historic canal. This part of the conservation area is characterised by residential development located adjacent to the canal. Some is very modern (the recently constructed residential development to the south), some approximately 50-70 years old (The Drive to the south west of the site), and some formed from the conversion of traditional mill buildings (Airedale Mills to the south). In summary, there is a variety of different buildings, ages, and approaches to development undertaken. There is absolutely no reason why development cannot be undertaken on this site without unacceptably impacting on the character and appearance of the Leeds to Liverpool Canal Conservation Area.
With respect to the Micklethwaite Conservation Area, due to the distance from the site, and the existence of the allotment site between the Conservation Area and this site, the impact on the heritage asset is very minimal.