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Representation ID: 28469

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Lovell Homes

Agent: PB Planning

Housing Distribution - Bradford NW

As insufficient evidence has been provided to demonstrate that exceptional circumstances exist for the removal of the Cities & Urban Centres Uplift from the Standard Method calculation, the Local Plan should seek to deliver 2,300 homes per annum over the plan period 2020-2038. Which equates to 41,400 homes.

Meaning sufficient land to allocate a further 10,728 homes will need to be found within the District, and the PPG identifies in Paragraph: 035 Reference ID: 2a-035-20201216 that the increase in the number of homes to be delivered through the Cities & Urban Centres Uplift is expected to be met by the cities and urban centres themselves, rather than the surrounding areas, unless it would conflict with national policy and legal obligations.

Lovell Homes’ site at Allerton Road, Bradford is located within the defined area of the Regional City of Bradford and should therefore be considered as an additional housing allocation to meet the increased housing needs of the District within future version of the Local Plan.

Furthermore, even if the level of housing distribution to the North West Area of Bradford was retained at 9% this would require the delivery of 3,726 homes within the plan period, an increase of 826 homes.

Retaining the adopted Core Strategy’s level of distribution (11%) would require the delivery of 4,554 homes. Which of course is a level of housing growth which was previously considered sustainable and deliverable following a thorough examination in public process.