Statement of Community Involvement 2025

7. Appendices

Appendix 1 – Access to Information

Council's principal offices during normal office hours and main libraries

Council Offices:

• Britannia House Broadway, Bradford, BD1 1HX
• Keighley Town Hall Bow Street, Keighley, BD21 3PA

District Libraries:

• Bradford City Library Centenary Square, Bradford, BD1 1SD
• Bradford Local Studies Margaret McMillian Tower, Princess Way, Bradford, BD1 1NN
• Bingley Library 5 Rise Shopping Centre, Bingley, BD16 1AW
• Ilkley Library Station Road, Ilkley, LS29 8HA
• Keighley Library North Street, Keighley, BD21 3SX
• Shipley Library Wellcroft, Shipley, BD18 3QH

Copies of Local Plan documents will also be made available for inspection in local/community libraries where the content of that document is specific or relevant to a local area.

Appendix 2 – List of Stakeholders

Section 4 outlined the various categories of stakeholder groups who may engage in planning policy. These categories reflect those set out in the planning legislation.

• Specific consultation bodies – groups with expertise in particular subject;
• General consultation bodies – groups that represent the interests' of certain groups (i.e. age groups); recognised voluntary groups; and bodies that represent business in the District;
• Other consultation bodies – those who have an interest in planning; local representative bodies and local communities who have actively engaged in the preparation of the Local Plan and other planning documents.

Specific Consultation Bodies

The bodies identified below must be consulted under the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2012^[13]. The following agencies/bodies will be consulted as a matter of course on all Local Plan and Neighbourhood Plan Documents, and, where relevant Supplementary Planning and other planning documents.

General Consultation Bodies

Other Consultees

The Council maintains a database which includes local individuals, organisations, agents, landowners and businesses that have indicated they wish to be actively engaged in plan-making in Bradford. This is an amalgamated database of Stay Connected and Planning Policy contacts.

Everyone on the database will be notified of any public consultation on local plans.

Anyone can request to be added or removed from the database. Individuals and groups who respond to a consultation on local plan are automatically added to the database unless they expressly opt out.

Appendix 3 - Statutory Consultees on Applications for Planning Permission

Appendix 4 - Duty to Co-operate Consultation Bodies

Neighbouring authorities:

• Calderdale Council
• Craven District Council
• Harrogate District Council
• Kirklees Council
• Lancashire County Council
• Leeds City Council
• North Yorkshire Council
• Pendle District Council
• Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

The relevant prescribed bodies for Bradford prescribed for the purposes of section 33A(1)(c) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, as amended, are-

• the Environment Agency;
• the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England (known as English Heritage and now Historic England);
• Natural England;
• the Civil Aviation Authority;
• the Homes and Communities Agency (now called Homes England)
• each integrated care board established under Chapter A3 of Part 2 of the National Health Service Act 2006;
• NHS England;
• the Office of Rail and Road;
• each Integrated Transport Authority
• each highway authority within the meaning of section 1 of the Highways Act 1980 (including the Secretary of State, where the Secretary of State is the highways authority);
• The bodies prescribed for the purposes of section 33A(9) of the Act are-
  1. each local enterprise partnership; and
  2. each local nature partnership.

• In this regulation-

  "local enterprise partnership" means a body, designated by the Secretary of State, which is established for the purpose of creating or improving the conditions for economic growth in an area; and "local nature partnership" means a body, designated by the Secretary of State, which is established for the purpose of protecting and improving the natural environment in an area and the benefits derived from it.

Additional duty to cooperate partners:

• West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA)

^[13] Town & Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations (2012), Part 1 (2) as amended