Object

Representation ID: 29135

Received: 26/08/2021

Respondent: Ms Georgia Young

-Site adjacent SSSI - should be afforded the same levels of protection, if not greater, than Baildon Bank and the Moor.
-Increase in air, noise and light pollution - likely to have an adverse impact on the flora and fauna in the adjacent areas.
-Impact on wildlife (pipistrelle bats, tawny owls, foxes, rabbits, field mice, several species of tits, jackdaws, magpies, woodpeckers, ring-necked pheasants, roe deer, jays, dunnocks, wrens, smooth newts, many species of moths, butterflies and other insects, goldfinches) -See draft Ecological Survey produced by the Friends of Gill Beck Valley
- Adverse impact on people’s health and wellbeing
-Increase in car use / pollution / congestion around the school
-Green spaces are essential to maintaining good air quality and tackling climate change.
-Proximity of Baildon to the proposed Clean Air Zone and high levels of pollution along the Aire Valley, maintaining Baildon’s green belt will support reduction of the air pollution and congestion in that area. Proposals likely to increase the problems the Council is trying to address.
-The site is not consistent with the ‘15 minute neighbourhood principles’ with respect to health care.
-There are many unused brownfield sites in Bradford and unoccupied.
-Housing numbers for Baildon is in excess of what is required and appears not to take into account the 81 units currently working their way through planning.
-Insist that developers work to the highest standards when it comes to building and infrastructure design and sustaining and encouraging natural habitats for wildlife and access by the public to these.
-If the proposal is implemented I would want it to include a stipulation that any housing development on the site is carbon neutral both during construction and once completed and occupied.