Comment

Representation ID: 23632

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Peter Bryson

Settlement Hierarchy: including Addingham's poor transport infrastructure

The Draft Plan states that it seeks to align the Core Strategy with a settlement hierarchy “which ensures that development quantums reflect the role and function of settlements, and their accessibility to jobs, services and public transport.” (para. 3.8.32).

The Addingham village settlement is ill-served by its essentially very-local, and also very-historic, road network, which passes through the centre of the village. All of the main through routes are already severely and dangerously congested, often taking heavy vehicles along narrow residential streets. This congestion is a major road safety concern to local residents.

Therefore, obviously due to the complete absence of almost all sustainable transport, as has previously been determined by both Bradford Council and also the Planning Inspectorate, Addingham should only be attracting a reduced scale of housing growth: especially when compared with many other larger and much-better connected urban settlement areas within the wider Bradford city region.