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Representation ID: 793

Received: 05/03/2021

Respondent: Clive Brook Planning

POLICY SC4:- LOCATION OF DEVELOPMENT
The policy should on balance be deleted as it serves very little if any purpose. It is far from clear in the written justification why a system of sequential selection or prioritisation of sites for allocation is necessary. In certain settlements there are few if any previously developed sites likely to come forward except on an unpredictable 'windfall' basis. Given past high rates of development of brownfield it has to be recognised that the opportunities for the future identification of potential brownfield allocations is severely restricted in at least one of the three principal towns and in other settlements in the lower tiers of the hierarchy. Similarly the opportunities for developing greenfield sites are greatly restricted in all tiers of the hierarchy as a result of existing greenfield uses or designations or the need for these to become publicly accessible open spaces in the future.