Object

Representation ID: 65710

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Trustees of the Haseley Settlement

Agent: RPS Planning & Development

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The Council has failed to ensure the permanence of the Green Belt to ensure beyond the Plan period as required by the NPPF. The Council has not provided for its objectively assessed need nor made satisfactory provision for the level of housing generated from the Gateway site. The level to which the Green Belt has been amended is insufficient to meet the needs of the District and Sub-Region. There is no formal commitment to undertake a strategic review of the Green Belt despite committing to reviewing housing numbers by 2015 within the CWLEP Strategic Growth Plan. The SHLAA identifies a number of village sites suitable for development subject to green belt boundaries being amended. However the plan fails to take the SHLAA into account when drawing the settlement boundaries of the villages within the Green Belt. For example despite the SHLAA identifying site R39 at Hatton Green as suitable and available the proposed village boundary excludes the site. No housing sites are identified at Hatton Green despite it being a sustainable location with a primary school, nursery school and community facilities. In direct contrast 80 dwellings are proposed at Hatton Park which has no facilities and is considered to extend the built form beyond clearly identifiable and defensible limits of green belt.