Comment

Representation ID: 28821

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Bradford District Ward Councillor (Conservative)

- Size of development – the proposal to build 155 new homes is too large for the area. Cottingley currently only has 2,082 dwellings; this plan would increase the size of the village by almost 10%.

- Access, transport and congestion – the area is already quite congested with residential traffic, and the plan does not provide improved roads, and access to the additional 155 houses would come from already congested streets. An increase in traffic would be bad for air quality, health and living standards.

- Local facilities – the schools in the area are full, and an increase in population is not supported by the local infrastructure

- Road safety - previous LDP traffic safety assessments concluded that March Cote Lane and Lysander Way should never be used as exits for additional dwellings. Whilst exceptional circumstances may be used to try argue the reclassification of greenbelt land, this does not give the council unconditional latitude to recklessly disregard the existing LDP traffic safety thresholds. It recklessly puts traffic and pedestrians at risk, especially school children. Bradford Council would need to be held to account, and accept some responsibility, for serious traffic injuries, fatalities and manslaughter if a child is killed or injured as result of inadequate consultation regarding the proposal to build 155 houses next to the junction of Cottingley Primary School and Dixons Cottingley Academy.