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Representation ID: 16998

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Alastair Massie

It’s claimed that AD6/H is in Flood Zone 1, implying low risk. On the contrary, I fear that development on higher ground further up Moor Lane will have an adverse effect on those properties lower down.

The shoe-horning of new high-density housing on sites cleared for the purpose towards the bottom of Moor Lane has led to far more cars parked on either side of the road, meaning that the road narrows to such an extent that traffic, before proceeding, often has to wait for vehicles coming the opposite way to pass. Yet more housing at the top of Moor Lane, abutting the by-pass, will only lead to more traffic and an exacerbation of the bottleneck lower down.

AD6/H is greenbelt land and the Bradford District Plan acknowledges that developing the site ‘has moderate potential for sprawl’. Having seen the Pegasus Group/Snell Developments Ltd plan for the site, I would rate the danger of sprawl resulting from it as much higher than moderate.