Please record this e mail as formal registration of an objection to the two proposals - referenced for consideration as Traveller accommodation - In short there can be no reasonable requirement for Green Belt land to be considered for such use.

The Government's own guidance issued in March 2012 re traveller sites (accompanies the National Planning Policy Framework) reconfirms that in plan making and decision taking (re traveller sites) Local Authorities should specifically avoid inappropriate development in Green Belts. Any consideration here will go against that guidance.

Apart from arguing & stating the green belt policy principle, it is also worthwhile reinforcing that the development would in actual fact as well as in policy terms be inappropriate - it would 'harm' the Green Belt by reducing the degree of 'openness' (The appraisal notes that GT alt03 in particular is open). Arguments for the value of the site(s) in terms of how their contribution to the green belt - contributing to 'openness' and to separating urban areas from each other are also relevant here. Furthermore development on the sites would be prominent/ visually intrusive and the recommendation of an owner is not a relevant variable in the context of Green Belt policy

GT19 is the only green belt site on the Council's list of proposed sites and it should not be looked at as anything else - to do so will open up 100's of potentially inappropriate sites as being a possible consideration and result in policy not being a basis for policy outcomes.