Object

Representation ID: 56590

Received: 29/07/2013

Respondent: Grevayne Properties Ltd

Agent: Cerda Planning Ltd

The policy does not set out the levels of growth for the larger more sustainable villages and the smaller villages and hamlets; in both cases appropriate levels of growth should be provided and housing numbers should be reasonably significant (without undermining the urban first approach to development), given the significant number of larger villages and smaller villages and hamlet across what is largely a rural District.

The Council must ensure that housing is distributed to larger villages and smaller Villages and hamlets, in order that they deliver housing in their own right as opposed to these locations being seen as a 'sweeper' once all opportunities for development at the larger urban centres are exhausted.

Concern is expressed in relation to the proposed site for large scale Green Bell release at Kenilworth, since the proposed allocation comprises a significant tract of land fully within the Green Belt which, to some extent, performs a Green Wedge and assists in avoiding coalescence between settlements.

The Plan has not adequately demonstrated that all non-Green Belt sites have been exhausted.