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Representation ID: 16718

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Shipley Town Council

The draft local plan identifies over 65 housing sites in the current Green Belt.

We do not agree that Bradford Council has justified the exceptional circumstances for building on the Green Belt on the edge of Shipley. There is underutilised land in Shipley nearer Shipley Town Centre that could be used for development. See our specific comments on the proposed housing sites for more detail.

Also analysing some of the Green Belt sites indicates net densities averaging around 26 dpha – well below the draft Plan’s policy HO2 of a minimum of 35 dpha, and even further below the 50 dpha that we consider all site allocations should be required to achieve. There is no sound rationale for releasing Green Belt land if the result will be 5,000 homes developed at non-policy compliant densities.

We also cannot see how developments on Green Belt and greenfields will lead to the biodiversity net gain as the Council sets out it wants to achieve in Policy EN2: Biodiversity.