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Representation ID: 66612

Received: 27/06/2014

Respondent: Mark and Sarah Grimes

Agent: Strutt & Parker

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Support thrust of H11 but there is no robust empirical evidence to restrict the scale to no more than 2 dwellings. Likewise the definition of infill development, being too narrow.
Para. 89 of the framework identifies specific exceptions where new development is appropriate within the Green Belt; limited infilling in villages being one such exception. As presently drafted the policy does not embrace the sustainability ethos set out within the framework at paras. 14, 151, 187 and is therefore unsound, not positively prepared or justified.
To contribute to the present and future economic environmental and social sustainability of villages, especially those washed over by Green Belt, provisions for new housing should be allowed where the scale and nature of the development does not result in significant or demonstrable adverse impacts