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Representation ID: 19830

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: WSP UK Ltd

The addition of a site-specific policy in Bradford’s emerging Local Plan would demonstrate strategic planning for the vital development and infrastructure required by the hospital in compliance with national policy.

The plan will be in place until 2038, therefore it is imperative that a policy relating to the hospital is sufficiently flexible to accommodate a range of scenarios on the site, enabling the Trust to optimise the site’s potential and adequately provide for current and future care needs.

As such, we propose a site-specific policy (ie ‘ST6/HOSP’)· The future redevelopment for new hospital buildings and infrastructure;
· An increase in building heights to create views over the countryside, to improve patient wellbeing and also consolidate facilities and services;
· Provision of a new access / egress from Skipton Road to create a one-way system which would ease congestion at the existing junction;
· Expansion of the hospital facilities and infrastructure northwards by amending the Green Belt and Settlement Boundaries (please see site location plan);
· Provision of new landscaping buffer along the northern site boundary.