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3. The principle of a dwelling in the Green Belt
4. Visual impact on the green belt
5. Design and effect upon the character of the area
6. Impact on Heritage Assets
7. Comprehensive development of land, backland and tandem development
8. Flood risk, drainage and climate change
9. Impact on highways
10. Residential amenity
11. Protected species
12. Drainage
13. Assessment of Harm from the Proposed Development
14. Case for Very Special Circumstances
2.8 Sustainable Development
2.8.1 Paragraph 14 of the NPPF states “At the heart of the National Planning Policy
Framework is a presumption in favour of sustainable development, which should be
seen as a golden thread running through both plan-making and decision-taking".
2.8.2 The site is located within the defined development limits of Bilbrough and is washed
over by Green Belt and the proposal is for the erection of dwelling. There is nothing
within the Local Plan or NPPF to identify this type of development as being
unsustainable. However, the NPPF makes it clear that the presumption for
sustainable development does not override the presumption against inappropriate
development in the Green Belt.
2.9 The principle of Housing
2.9.1 Policies YH1 and H1 of the Regional Spatial Strategy set the overriding sub area
policy to which development of this nature should be directed and define the
provision and distribution of housing with the aim to manage and step up the supply
and delivery of housing.
2.9.2 Policy H2A of the Selby District Local Plan states that ’to ensure that the annual
house building requirement is achieved in a sustainable manner, applications for
residential development up to the end of 2006 will only be acceptable on previously
developed sites and premises within defined development limits, subject to the
criteria in policies H6 and H7. It should be recognised that although Policy H2A
refers to 2006 it was intended to restrict new housing on non-allocated sites to
previously-developed land for the life of the plan, it is therefore the case that the
proposal to develop this garden plot which does not constitute previously developed
land conflicts with this policy and, thus, also policy H7.
2.9.3 Local Plan policy H7 identifies Bilbrough as a village which, in terms of
sustainability, is capable of accommodating additional housing development if it is
sensitive infilling on previously developed land, subject to it according with policy
H2A and meeting six listed criteria, which are assessed in full detail later in this
report, residential development within its defined development limits will be
permitted.
2.9.4 The Local Plan predates the change of national planning policy, annex 2 of which
provides a definition of what constitutes previously developed land and states
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