Object

Representation ID: 4833

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Ramy Abdalla

Agent: CODA Planning Limited

Policy SP5 of the emerging plan should be amended to include SE/110 as a site to be referenced as follows:
• “SE/110/H – Land at Highfields, Huddersfield Road, Wyke.”

The local planning authority needs to plan for 2,300 dwellings per annum over the plan period of the emerging Local Plan. To do this effectively the local planning authority will need to, and has previously accepted; that substantial Green Belt land will need to be released.

Such exceptional circumstances exist to require Green Belt boundaries to be amended.

The site the subject of these representations is located within Parcel 97 – comprising just 4.8% [0.61 ha] of the total area of Parcel 97 [12.92ha]. However, it is important to re-iterate that any assessment of the appropriateness of Green Belt release should relate only to site SE/110 and not Parcel 97 as a whole.

We have provided an assessment of the site against the 5 green belt purposes. We consider the site to perform only a low function against 3 of the 5 purposes and moderate against the other 2.

The site is of low quality and is very much characterised as “urban fringe”