Comments from MICHAEL HARPER 64 Grove Road Knowle B93 0PJ ( Retired Architect).

Amber Sites. Golden End Farm/Kixley Lane. Blue Lake Road/Oak Green.

I favour Golden End Farm site - it is well related to the village and has contained boundaries. The Blue Lake Road site worries me. Taken together with The Arden Triangle, it would bring too much weight of housing to that part of Knowle and would destroy the village character. At present it has some housing but the general appearance and feel is rural or semi rural and this should be retained at all costs.

The Arden Triangle.

There is a section of the site running alongside and adjacent to Grove Road, specified on the plan to be "Low Density". This is highly desirable but I would suggest that it is taken one step further and left as open space - if considered appropriate I would suggest Public open space.

Dispersed Sites.

All important in the development of the area is the maintenance of the village character
and nobody is going to argue with that. A key factor in this objective is to break the sizes of the individual sites down - lots of small sites rather than one or two big ones - and there is the opportunity to do this in KDBH. There are lots of smaller plots in the area which are suitable for development; these have already been assessed and some already successfully developed - a good example is off Four Ashes Road.


I hope these comments are helpful.