Object

Representation ID: 66240

Received: 24/06/2014

Respondent: Crest Strategic Projects

Agent: d2planning

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

We object to this policy which does not remove land at Lodge Farm, Westward Heath Road from the green belt and allocate, the site for a housing led development in accordance with the Garden Towns principles.

These objections should be read in conjunction with those made in respect of Policy DS6 Level of Housing Growth and DS7 Meeting the Housing Requirement. As part of the preparation of the Local Plan, the Planning Authority has unde1taken a green belt review. The details of this are set out in the Coventry Joint Green belt Review (January 2009). The land in question was identified as site C14C (see attached). It was reviewed in relation o the 5 green belt functions identified in PPGJ 'Green Belts' (now paragraph 80 of the NPPF). This assessment concluded that the land is one of the least constrained parcels south of Coventry and potentially suitable to be released from the green belt.

Our representations in respect of the Policies identified above have concluded that the housing provision for the distric1 needs to be substantially increased. The Local Plan accepts in Policy DS 19 that land currently located within the green belt needs to be released to assist in meeting the housing requirement. Furthermore, this does not take into account land which needs to be released to meet the housing needs from adjoining Districts e.g. Coventry. We are firmly of the view that as the housing provision needs to be substantially increased and accordingly land within the green belt needs to be released as it is accepted within the Local Plan that there are insufficient brownfield sites or unconstrained green belt sites to meet the housing requirement. Accordingly, this site is ideally placed to be released for green belt. In accordance with our objections to Policy DS 11 that the site is available, suitable and deliverable in line with the SHLAA.