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Representation ID: 641

Received: 12/12/2021

Respondent: Kinver Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group

The policy on Green Belt release is too lax, and does not prove 'exceptional circumstances' as required by the NPPF.
If the ‘need to cooperate’ were removed/reduced and South Staffs 'housing need' calculations were reviewed to remove upward bias, the need to take green field and green belt could be drastically reduced. Second, the use of existing brown field or previously developed land (in South Staffs and GBHMA) is underestimated. In South Staffs, smaller sites where one house is replaced by 2 or more provide a large amount of housing which is ignored.
See document by Gerald Kells, attached.