Comment

Representation ID: 18539

Received: 07/12/2006

Respondent: Kember Loudon Williams Ltd

Agent: Kember Loudon Williams Ltd

The protection of 'countryside gaps' is a planning policy that needs re-examination. In practice, some land that falls within designated 'strategic gaps' is actually less sensitive than land that falls outside such areas.

The general principle (xii) should be replaced with the following:
"Recognising the individual character and form of individual settlements and ensuring that this is not compromised".
The protection of strategic gaps might be one means of achieving this aim, but it allows for other townscape and landscape approaches to be followed.