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Representation ID: 28234

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

Housing Distribution - Bradford NW

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 Bradford North West.

The reduction For Bradford NW from 4,500 dwellings (Adopted Core Strategy) to 2,900 dwellings in Policy SP8 falls significantly short of the baseline population proportionate distribution of 4,043 and is not supported

The overall requirement for the both Bradford North West and the District as a whole should be significantly higher. Applying the 35% uplift in the Bradford North West sub area using the same proportional distribution as the adopted Core Strategy results in the requirement for an additional 1,009 dwellings to be distributed to Bradford North West.