Draft response to the Government’s consultation on National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)

Message from Colne Valley Regional Park.

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Our key points are:

• The Colne Valley Regional Park is a special landscape, nature and community resource which deserves an overall protected designation, but does not currently have one. Although it is within the Metropolitan Green Belt, this still makes it vulnerable to piecemeal encroachment without adequate compensation. In the absence of this, the NPPF should say more to protect the Park in other ways.
• The NPPF should say more about the cumulative impact of speculative (as opposed to planned) development, both authorised and unauthorised.
• Cross-boundary cooperation should be strengthened at all levels of plan-making, not only for housing and economic growth, but also for environmental protection at a landscape scale.