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Representation ID: 16980

Received: 18/03/2021

Respondent: Bingley Town Council

The impact of increased traffic on Cottingley and the difficulties of access to the proposed site, as well as the environmental impact are a grave cause for concern. It is a clear breach of Bradford Council’s previous LDP traffic safety assessments going back as far as the 1985 Lower Airedale Local Plan report that March Cote Lane and Lysander Way can not cope with the impact of extra road traffic. The whole area encompassing the B6146 Cottingley Moor Road, Lysander Way, B6269 Cottingley Cliffe Road, and the B6265 Bingley Road/A650 Bradford road from Wagon Lane to Saltaire are significant bottlenecks at peak times, owing to the traffic generated from Cottingley Primary School, Dixon’s Cottingley Academy and Beckfoot and Hazelbeck Schools. In December 2019 there were two fatalities near the junction with Grange Park Drive. A thorough traffic survey is essential across these areas, in non-pandemic circumstances and at peak times, to properly assess the density of traffic and the effect on the well-being and safety of pedestrians and residents. An assessment of air quality throughout the district is also required. It is astonishing that Bradford Metropolitan District Council is promoting a ‘Clean Air Zone’ which includes a corridor along Canal Road and into Shipley and Saltaire, yet proposes developments which will have a serious and lasting impact on the health of residents of Cottingley and Bingley.