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Representation ID: 43856

Received: 05/10/2021

Respondent: Taylor Wimpey

Agent: Pegasus

4.17 Policy GB1 refers to the Black Country Green Belt. Criterion 2 refers to sites that are removed from the Black Country Green Belt and allocated towards meeting employment, residential and other needs. It states that the design of developments on such sites will include physical features that define the new Green Belt boundary in a readily recognisable and permanent way.
4.18 Whilst the principle of this is understood, the Policy should also refer to the reinforcement of existing boundaries as some sites are likely to already have existing clearly defined boundaries where the provision of new boundaries would be inappropriate.
4.19 This current wording also does not consider sites which are to be released from the Green Belt in neighbouring authority areas, such as South Staffordshire. In such scenarios, there would be no need to provide a Green Belt buffer within the Black Country as there would be developed land beyond this buffer in the neighbouring authority area.