Object

Representation ID: 15168

Received: 13/12/2020

Respondent: Mr Michael Hunter

Agent: Marrons Planning

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

- Would remove area of higher performing Green Belt (RP71 in Green Belt Assessment)
- Erode gap between Whitlocks End and Dickens Heath
- Draft plan should release lower performing parcels first
- Site BL1 relates poorly to existing Dickens Heath village
- Pedestrian and cycling connectivity links between site and village are constrained by LWS and ancient woodland at Tythe Barn Coppice
- Tythe Barn Lane and Birchy Leasowes Lane are narrow country lanes unsuitable for pedestrian and cycling links and public transport improvements
- Development risks severing connectivity between Local Wildlife Sites that surround BL1
- Unclear how ecological enhancement of the site will be achieved
- Impact on landscape area particularly sensitive to change
- Significant scale of development, not in-keeping with the local character and rural setting
- Unable to mitigate the significant loss of the playing pitches, and therefore not an effective contribution to the spatial strategy
- Should accord with NPPF Para. 97
- Council's search for sports hubs could result in further travel for local users; no certainty on their provision.
- Better alternative locations available.