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Representation ID: 5451

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Andrew Coates

Agent: Rural Solutions

Although the site can provide for a density of 32.7 dwellings per hectare, housing development here is perhaps the furthest it can be from the services and facilities of Addingham Local Centre. It is not within walking distance to the primary school within the settlement. The recommended guidance for walking distance to services is 400 meters.

The site, along with AD6/H and AD7/H, has a significant impact on the openness of the green belt in that it protrudes into the rural transport corridor whereby only sporadic farmstead development exists at present.

Notably, acknowledgement is made that sensitive site design is required to mitigate impacts on landscape character.
We dispute that this is a sustainably located green belt site, as it needs to provide more than just contiguity with a settlement boundary when there are other sites that are within the recommended walking distance to services and facilities within the community.