Object

Representation ID: 16616

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Gillian Drake

Objection to build 170 houses at West Lane.

Site is greenbelt at the edge of a World Heritage site.
Loss of precious green space used for recreation and to protect wildlife.
No supporting infrastructure planned to go with this development. There are insufficient surgeries, Pharmacies, and shops to support another 170 households.
There are traffic jams at Baildon roundabout and the main road leading to Shipley at rush hour (which will be further magnified by the 80 houses you have already approved). Another couple of hundred cars travelling down these roads at rush hour which would be ridiculous.
These houses should be built on brown belt sites in areas that can support the associated extra traffic and provide the facilities and schools that the residents will be needing.
You should be realistic about the likely consequences of your proposal and plan accordingly. To assume people will walk or cycle to work and distant locations for schools and medical care is completely unrealistic.