Object

Representation ID: 20144

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: James Cooper

•I object to the development planned on Sun Lane. This development is for a large 22.1ha green belt housing estate. I understand that there is a lot of pressure on the council to build more homes to try to bring house pricing down and therefore to try to solve the issue of the housing crisis.
•The attached PDF and the link to the LSE blog below provides details some of the issues with building new housing and provides other solutions. This may give Bradford Council more thought as to whether to sacrifice green belt land in this possibly failing pursuit. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/tackling-the-uk-housing-crisis/
•Because of these articles and many others, I do not believe that the risk of using green belt land to meet your quota is worth it. Once a green belt is built on, it is gone. There are plenty of projects on brownfield sites, such as the construction at the old mill in Burley-in-Wharfedale I support. Please read these articles and reconsider the location of the construction, as damage to local wildlife and surrounding area will be detrimental in this project.