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Representation ID: 76

Received: 11/02/2021

Respondent: James Ford

Building on greenbelt land is not consistent with the councils declaration of a climate emergency. We should be densifying not extensifying to meet these goals. The houses planned will be low density - building on Wheatley Close for example is steep land where high density will not be possible. There is plenty of small plots available for building in Ilkley: e.g. reducing the size of playing fields by 25% would still maintain their primary function; lots of spare space in low density suburbs with creative thinking (e.g. by reducing unused green sidings, space taken up by un-needed large road intersections).