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Representation ID: 21643

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Elizabeth Nancy Briggs

Agent: Johnson Mowat

Housing Distribution - Thornton

The Draft Local Plan significantly increases the urban focus by directing more development to Bradford City Centre. The Preferred Option Draft Local Plan proposes 7,000 dwellings in the City Centre, a significant uplift from 3,500 in the Core Strategy, and 4,000 in the Draft Core Strategy Partial Review. The Council have therefore applied an urban focus uplift in terms of the distribution of development but without applying an uplift to the overall requirement. This results in a whole shift away from the distribution identified in the adopted Core Strategy, with disproportionate reductions to the majority of sustainable settlements and sub areas in the
District, including Thornton (Local Growth Centre).

Whilst the increase from 500 dwellings (Core Strategy Partial Review) to 575 dwellings in Policy SP8: Housing Growth is welcomed; it remains my clients position that the overall requirement for the both Thornton and the District as a whole should be significant higher.