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Representation ID: 16329

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Newett Homes

Agent: Quod North

Policy SP3’s approach to defining the settlement hierarchy and development needs is outdated. The approach taken within the RSS and adopted Core Strategy has failed to deliver against BCC's housing requirements.

A new updated settlement study which factors in capacity to accommodate growth should be produced to inform the hierarchy.

Account should be taken of the impacts of the COVID pandemic and its effects on the way people work, working from home etc. These changes disrupt the outdated notion of settlement hierarchies and the role of smaller settlements.

Wilsden is well located to Principal Towns and Bradford and should (alongside other nearby Local Service Centres) be allocated greater (yet proportionate) growth to achieve important sustainable development objectives and benefits going forwards.