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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Cotswolds National Landscape Board

Assessments required for sites that are taken forward to the Regulation 19 (Pre-Submission) stage
For sites within the CNL and sites within the CNL’s 3km buffer zone that the Councils are considering taking forward to the Regulation 19 (pre-submission) consultation stage, we recommend that the following assessments should be undertaken:
• An updated landscape sensitivity assessment (LSA) specifically for the sites that are being proposed, including consideration of landscape and visual effects in relation to the CNL.
• For sites that, individually and / or collectively, would increase the number of dwellings in the settlement by 10% or more, an assessment of the potential increase in traffic movements on roads within - and along the boundary of the CNL that would result from the proposed allocation.
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• An assessment of whether the allocation is likely to further the purpose of conserving the natural beauty of the CNL (including: (i) whether the allocation would have a (net) beneficial, harmful, neutral or negligible effect or no effect; and (ii) what reasonable and proportionate action could be taken to further this purpose, over and above avoidance and mitigation of harm).
For sites within the CNL, specifically, that remain in consideration, we recommend that an assessment should be undertaken to identify whether the site constitutes major development, in the context of paragraph 190 of the NPPF. If it is deemed to constitute major development, a further assessment should be undertaken to identify whether exceptional circumstances apply to justify the proposal.