Object
Core Strategy Submission Document
Representation ID: 16217
Received: 02/11/2009
Respondent: CPREssex
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? Yes
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Policy GB1 is unsound as the principles of PPG2 have not been adhered to. An overall review of the Green Belt should have carried out and boundaries firmly drawn so they can be maintained.
CPREssex wishes to see the Policy wording revised to bring it into line with PPG2.
This Policy is far too weak to protect the Green Belt within the Rochford District. There appears to have been no overall review of the Green Belt boundaries or any reasoning why specific areas have been chosen for development. Why are these areas less worthy of protection? Under GB1 Risk Mitigation (p140) it states that protection of the Green Belt will be 'regulated' through the 'development management process'. This is not the way to protect the Green Belt; a Policy that has been respected and successful in its fuctions (as set out in PPG2) for many years.