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Representation ID: 43928

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: IM Land

Agent: Turley Assocs

CSP3 (towns and neighbourhood areas and the Green Belt)
3.13 Policy CSP3 1) recognises the importance of providing a mix of good quality residential
areas where people choose to live and recognising the inherent sustainability of
directing new development through the allocation of a network of new NGAs. This is
why NGAs are crucial to the success of this plan – as traditionally certain types and
sizes of housing are more readily delivered on urban brownfield sites due to factors
such as viability and density. NGAs offer the opportunity to deliver a wider range of
housing types to meet the area’s identified needs.




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3.14 IM Land agree that it will be important to the success of the NGAs for the parcels of
land to be comprehensively master planned to maximise the efficiency, sustainability,
and integration across the sites, and this has been central to the development of the
illustrative masterplan for land at Queslett Road (Site Ref: WAH234) to date.
3.15 The allocation of NGAs allows for greater public access to the countryside which urban
sites are not able to, so it is right parts e) and g) of the draft policy require integrated
and where possible continuous networks of green infrastructure and easy access to the
countryside. This would not be possible without NGAs and the need for this
infrastructure is a central theme to the illustrative masterplan for IM Land’s site at
Queslett Road, Walsall.
3.16 This is set out at section 5 of the Vision Document enclosed at Appendix 1, which
identifies the key design principles which have been incorporated in the development
of the illustrative masterplan for the site. This includes the provision of a defensible
Green Belt boundary to the north.
3.17 On point e), as we discuss further at draft policy DEL1, it will be essential that the
Councils’ evidence base appropriately identifies necessary infrastructure to facilitate
and mitigate the proposed development to allow for NGAs to be appropriately phased
and delivered alongside any necessary infrastructure.