Object
Draft Local Plan - Supplementary Consultation
Representation ID: 8489
Received: 15/03/2019
Respondent: Simon Taylor
- Strong objection to Site 12
- Overall scale inequitable versus other areas and unjustified
- Represents an increase from original Local Plan with no justification (although note that shift Eastwards represents an improvement)
- Severe implications for demarcation of Dickens Heath and Cheswick Green, with continued urban sprawl from Shirley effectively subsuming these villages (direct contradiction to Local Plan)
I strongly object to the inclusion of site 12 as an allocated site. This is for the reasons as follows:
* The overall scale of development for the Blythe area is completely inequitable versus other areas
* Whilst the extension of the site East is more reasonable, to prevent development around the listed building to the West (Light Hall Farm), I note that the proposed number of dwellings has increased by 150 from the original plan. I fail to see what could possibly be the rationale for this? Surely expansion of numbers at lower allocation areas should be explored
* The proposed development has severe implications for the demarcation of Dickens Heath and Cheswick Green, directly at odds with the objectives of the Local Plan. The proposed development removes any determinable barrier between both settlement and continues the urban sprawl from Shirley, subsuming these distinct village.