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Representation ID: 21658

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Patchett Developments Ltd

Agent: Johnson Mowat

Housing Distribution - Cottingley

The Draft Local Plan significantly increases the urban focus by directing more development to Bradford City Centre. The Preferred Option Draft 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 Cottingley (Local Service Centre).

Whilst the increase from 0 dwellings (CSPR) to 150 dwellings in Policy SP8: Housing Growth is welcomed; it remains my client’s position that the overall requirement for the both Cottingley and the District as a whole should be significant higher.