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Representation ID: 3822

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Andrew Hodgson

The reasons for imposing 181 houses on Addingham is flawed. It is a 'Local Service Centre' yet it is proposed to increase its housing stock by 10.3% whereas some 'Local Growth Centres' (Steeton and Menston) and some 'Principal Towns' (Keighley and Bingley) are seeing lower percentage increases. Addingham does not have the infrastructure to accommodate this number of new dwellings. This appeared to have been recognised when the original number of 200 dwellings in the Core Strategy 2017 document was subsequently reduced to 75 dwellings in the 2019 partial review and supported by the Housing sites assessment (2018) and Addingham Neighbourhood plan. I is therefore concluded that the housing growth set out in Policy SP3: Hierarchy of Settlements, and does not offer a sustainable distribution of housing across the district. The adopted Addingham Neighbourhood plan is sustainable and does not require the allocation of Green Belt sites.