Comment
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 29700
Received: 24/03/2021
Respondent: Keyland Developments Ltd
Agent: Barton Wilmore
Chapter 2 includes the Council’s proposed plan period, suggest that the plan would run from 2020 to 2038, meaning the plan will have a lifetime of 18 years.
Whilst our Client does not object to this, there are concerns that the Council’s continued and long-standing record of significantly underdelivering the level of new homes required in the District should be fully accounted for with the emerging plan. This is evidenced by the Council not having been able to demonstrate a 5-year housing land supply for at least 10 years and their continued failure to meet the Housing Delivery Test. Whilst the standard methodology is supposed to account for past under delivery, the Council’s refusal to plan for the 35% uplift entirely undermines this.