Response from Mr Michael Simpson (Individual)
1. Mr Michael Simpson (Individual) : 19 Nov 2015 11:12:00
Discussion Paper section
1. Introduction
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Introduction 121. - The most important part of the Introduction is the commitment to conserve and enhance this Area of Outstanding Beauty, and allocate land for development which shows a preference for land of lesser environmental value.
These tenets should form the basis of any development proposals, and should specifically exclude consideration of productive and sustainable agricultural land for any such development. It is far too easy an option to sacrifice 'greenfield' sites for development and this should be resisted at all costs.
In preserving the unique characteristics of the AONB, the discrete villages of Beetham, Storth, & Arnside must maintain their existing boundaries, if they are not to merge and be subsumed into linear sprawl from Milnthorpe to the coast at Arnside.
