Reasoned Justification for Policy Fourteen
142 Under the NPPF, Neighbourhood Plans have the opportunity to designate Local Green Spaces which are of particular importance to the local community. This will afford protection from development other than in very special circumstances, Paragraph 77 of the NPPF says that Local Green spaces should only be designated where green space is:
• “in reasonably close proximity to the community it serves”;
• “demonstrably special to a local community and holds a particular local significance, for example because of its beauty, historic significance, recreational value (including as a playing field), tranquillity or richness of its wildlife”; and
• “where the green area concerned is local in character and is not an extensive tract of land.”
143 The areas identified by the community as being of value to them with some in need of the additional protection afforded to them as areas of Local Green Space, are included in Appendix Local Green Space Rationale together with a rationale for inclusion of each individual area.
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