Object

Representation ID: 6795

Received: 09/03/2021

Respondent: Jill Okunowo

•Previous planning application refused on Green Belt grounds. Plan includes 115 homes to be built on Green Belt in the Worth Valley.
•NPPF requires local authorities to maximise use of brownfield sites before changing Green Belt.
•NPPF requires ‘exceptional circumstances’ before changing Green Belt.
•What has changed to allow the release of green belt land?
•No sufficient justification providing exceptional circumstances for releasing Green Belt.
•The local authority should demonstrate all other reasonable options for meeting development needs.
•Local authorities must identify housing need for each settlement –this has not been explored sufficiently to justify building on green belt in Haworth/Oakworth/Oxenhope.
•No account of infrastructure to support additional homes e.g. schools, doctors, road links, public transport, water, sewerage, electricity, internet etc.
•Importance of green space/access to countryside for physical and mental well-being. Eroding Green Belt impacts on available green space. Haworth/Oxenhope have been visited by thousands of people during lockdown.