Object

Representation ID: 66172

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Hallam Land Management and William Davis

Agent: Marrons Planning

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

It is considered that the allocation at Thickthorn (HO6) should be deleted from the plan and the area remain as Green Belt for a number of reasons.

In the absence of:
* a clear demonstration of such exceptional circumstances as necessitate the need for the revision to the Green Belt boundaries;
* an assessment of the need for new housing in Kenilworth;
* replacement sites for the existing sports facilities at Thickthorn.
* an assessment of the transport and traffic impacts of the development of the site on the local highway network.
the plan is not justified and hence is unsound because it has not been shown that the strategy for developing Green Belt land is the most appropriate when considered against the
reasonable alternative of developing sites in sustainable locations outside the Green Belt.