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2.5.1 Please see note at start of agenda explaining the current status of the Core
Strategy.
2.6 Key Issues
The key issues in the consideration of this application are considered to be:
1) The principle of the development
2) Impact on the Green Belt
3) Sustainable development
4) Design, layout and scale
5) Impact on the highway network
6) Flood risk and drainage
2.7 The Principle of the Development
2.7.1 The application site is located on the Bypass Park Estate, a small established
industrial estate located within the green belt.
2.7.2 Policy EMP1 of the Selby District Local Plan states that ‘Provision for new
industrial/business development has mainly been in and around Selby, Sherburn in
Elmet, Tadcaster and Eggborough. These locations provide the best opportunities
for job creation without compromising the environmental objectives of the plan.’
2.7.3 Policy EMP4 of the local plan relates to the retention of established employment
areas. It states that it is important that the main concentrations of employment in the
plan area are found in and around the market and service villages. It goes on to say
that, is important that these areas, which have proved acceptable locations for
employment uses, are retained as they make an important contribution to the local
economy and are well related to the local workforce and public transport providing a
variety of premises and opportunities for the relocation and/or expansion of
businesses.
2.7.4 Whilst the site is not within the established employment area as identified on the
local plan proposals map, it is within an existing small cluster of commercial
buildings on the opposite side of the railway line which make up a small industrial
estate. As such regard should be had to the requirements of the policy and its aim
to retain and support existing employment uses.
2.7.5 This area has its own established access road which is off the A162. The site is
within the Green Belt as are the surrounding commercial uses to the north and
south of the site, with the area a short distance to the north of the site being
allocated as a major development site within the Green Belt. This has since been
built out.
2.7.6 The decision making process when considering proposals for development in the
Green Belt is in three stages, and is as follows:-
a
It must be determined whether the development is appropriate or
inappropriate development in the Green Belt.
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