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Representation ID: 28129

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

Housing Distribution - Bradford SE

The Draft Local Plan significantly increases the urban focus by directing more development to Bradford City Centre.

The Council have 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 in the adopted Core Strategy, with disproportionate reductions to the majority of sustainable settlements and sub areas in the District, including South East Bradford.

The South East Bradford Area has seen significant reductions in the proportion of housing, with the Adopted Core Strategy requiring 6,000 dwellings, which was reduced to 3,100 in the Core Strategy Partial Review and now proposes a further reduction to 2,200 dwellings in the Draft Local Plan. This falls significantly short of the baseline population proportionate distribution which is 3,229 (SP8 Technical Paper).

It is important that the Holme Wood Urban Extension is not jeopardised by an inflexible and disproportionately reduced housing requirement in the Bradford South East Sub Area.