Object

Representation ID: 28516

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Dr & Dr William & Monica Tomkiss

Number of people: 2

•The two sites will provide the majority of additional houses in Ilkley within a small area of Ben Rhydding.
•The area is subject to flooding. The A65 has flood on a number of occasions near the traffic lights at the Factory shop/Denton Bridge. Building on land which absorbs water which flows down Ilkley Moor will exacerbate this.
•Busy traffic at the railway bridge, the junction with the A65 and the narrow one-way Denton Bridge. These structural issues cannot be easily remedied through usual road widening.
•These are greenfield site. Government states that only Brownfield sites should be developed wherever possible. Bradford will have several of these which can be developed.
•With the recovery from Covid and changes in habits, it is likely more brownfield site will become available and which should be used first.
•No proposal to address the impact on services from the proposed housing. Around 1000 additional people would place additional pressure on over-stretched services. The reality is that traffic associated with ‘school-runs’ will be generate and make problems worse.
•Development of the scale proposed would alter the character of Ben Rhydding. Historically, it is a distinct cultural entity, compared to the main part of Ilkley which these proposals overlook.