Object

Representation ID: 14348

Received: 14/12/2020

Respondent: Rosconn Strategic Land

Agent: DS Planning

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Whilst accepting the Councils Strategy of urban expansion. this site raises concerns over compliance with government policy and the Council’s own methodology and site selection process, which includes using planning judgement to refine selection. Concern is raised about the proposed allocation on Green Belt grounds and Landscape Character assessment concerns.
Government policy states that the land to the south of Shirley, opposite Dog Kennel Lane clearly exhibits openness. The Landscape Character Assessment identifies the site as lying within a landscape character area of high sensitivity. Development here would extend built development out into open countryside.

Paragraphs 600 and 609 provide conflicting statements and constructing a new road to form the Green Belt boundary does not conform to Government policy. The existing field structure between Dog Kennel Lane and Cheswick Green does not provide a clear contiguous defensible Green Belt boundary for new development, it cannot be demonstrated how coalescence with Cheswick Green would be avoided. In developing out into open countryside there would be a substantial and detrimental impact on landscape character.