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Representation ID: 539

Received: 26/02/2021

Respondent: Professor Anthony Magee

300 houses, many to be built on greenbelt sites, is far too many for organic development of Ilkley. This represents something like at least a 5% increase in population, more if it is biased towards families with children. The town does not have the infrastructure capacity to cope with such an increase (schools, medical services). This is particularly worrying as the expansion is to be onto greenbelt land. This would be to the serious detriment of the local environment. It would cause a major increase in car traffic and pollution which is already a problem as Ilkley has only one major road through the town. Redevelopment of brown field sites should be strongly prioritised over greenbelt development.