CAMPAIGNERS who fought to save green belt in Aireborough are urging local people to take part in the final stage of the battle. Leeds City Council is running a public consultation on green belt in its Site Allocations Plan following the legal challenge by Aireborough Neighbourhood Development Forum. A High Court judge found that 37 sites should be temporarily removed from the SAP, pending further examination by the planning inspectors and the Secretary of State. Now the forum is stressing the importance of taking part in the consultation before the deadline of February 16. Jennifer Kirkby, the forum s chairperson and programme manager said: We are trying to get as many people to respond as possible, but they are not finding this easy, so we’ve done a Sustainability Analysis and suggested ways they might respond. You’ll find that here - https://aireboroughnf.wordpress.com/2021/02/07/responding-to-the-sap-consultation/ .
Woodhall Road in Thornbury - one of the sites likely to be dropped from the housing allocations LEEDS council decision-makers look set to finally scrap long-term plans to allow building to take place on dozens of green belt sites in the district - including many on the Bradford border. The move, which will see councillors consider a proposal for 37 sites to be removed from Leeds’s Site Allocations Plan, follows a high court ruling earlier this year. Leeds Council now claims that, upon review, it has enough potential future housing sites so that the green belt areas previously earmarked for development no longer need to be built on.