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Representation ID: 3832

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Brenda Brown

This is valued open space used by the whole community in an area where there are few. Air quality is very poor in the area because of traffic pollution so it is vital to keep such areas for public health reasons. This land is designated as Recreation Open Space in the previous plan . I object to the space having this important designation removed. The land should remain as Open Space, with the typology of ‘Amenity Greenspace’ as defined in the Open Space Audit Feb 2021. The Draft Local Plan claims to protect open spaces when in fact it has removed our 1.3 hectares of open space from the map. We are already an area that has been shown to be deprived of green space. The Draft Local Plan worsens an already dire situation, decreasing the amount of greenspace while the policy states a need to increase it.