Sheffield City Council is asking for our views on the future of our Green Belt countryside in the Loxley valley.
The council has published an ‘Issues and Options’ paper that will guide Sheffield’s approach to building the new houses it needs to provide homes for an expanding population.
Publishing the paper is the first step in a lengthy process to draw up the new Sheffield ‘Local Plan’.
The ‘Local Plan’ will be the blueprint for how the city will be developed over the next 15 years.
The Issues and Options paper sets out three stark choices for building in our Green Belt countryside. The council is now inviting your views on which of the options you prefer, and on all other aspects of the draft plan.
As we fight unwelcome plans for a 300-home township in the heart of the Loxley valley, we think it is vital that local people make their views known.
We are urging all Friends of the Loxley Valley members and supporters to have their say!
Three choices for building houses in the Green Belt
The three broad Green Belt choices facing the city are as follows:
- Option A – almost no new houses in the Green Belt
- Option B: 5,000 new houses in the Green Belt (which would be about an eighth of the new houses needed)
- Option C – 10,000 new houses in the Green Belt (a quarter of the number required up to 2038).
The council acknowledges that a key message from the last consultation in 2015 was that people want countryside and Green Belt protected.
Friends of the Loxley Valley would certainly agree with that verdict. We will be studying the options in detail and making our views known as part of the consultation period.
How to have your say
The consultation period runs from Tuesday 1st September 2020 to Tuesday 13th October 2020.
The ‘Issues and Options’ paper can be read or downloaded from the Sheffield City Council website.
You can have your say by filling in an online questionnaire on the council website.
Please no more green belt building this will cause harm to wildlife cause pollution and invade our space we love to live here because of how it is very rural not to be built up and busy
I dont agree to more housing being built.