Object

Representation ID: 22766

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Jane Cockcroft

•The Local Plan want to pass plans for several hundred houses in Ben Rhydding and Ilkley – together with the overturned appeal at Burley for 500 homes, and a new garden centre which will generate traffic.
•There are plenty of brownfield sites that should be used before greenfield.
•Following COVID there will be lots of scope for developing old industrial areas.
•Many mills have been empty for years. Lister Mills is only just being developed.
•No infrastructure (doctors, schools) to support these additional houses.
•Difficult to get a doctor’s appointment even before COVID.
•Ilkley Grammar is full.
•Flooding in Ilkley is a problem with the field opposite Manor Park having standing water for the past year.
•The worst thing is traffic congestion, especially on the A65 in summer.
•In Burley in March 2020 on a warmish weekend the traffic was horrendous. In the summer with the new garden centre and almost 1000 more houses the congestion will horrendous with people travelling out of Leeds/Bradford to Ilkley and the Dales.