Comment

Representation ID: 29776

Received: 25/03/2021

Respondent: Ilkley Town Council

In the Local Plan, Bradford specifies two projected housing densities. For sites near main transport hubs, 50 dwellings per hectare and for other sites 35 dwellings per hectare.

The housing densities proposed for the sites identified by Bradford, in the Local Plan are very low indeed and much lower than those proposed by Bradford in the Plan.

By way of illustration Ilkley is planned to have 314 dwellings on the four sites.

For example
Only IL4/H approaches 50 dwellings per hectare (at that density it could take 11 dwellings rather than the 9 planned)
IL2/H, 1.18ha is planned to take 20 dwellings. At 50 per hectare it could take 59
IL1/H 7.18ha is planned to take 130, at an astonishingly low density of 18 dwellings per hectare. At 50 per ha it could take 359
IL3/H, 7.41ha is planned to take 155 dwellings (21 per hectare) whereas it could take 370. N.B. this number comes down to 350 if 0.4ha is allocated to a park and ride carpark

Given that three of these sites are on green belt, it seems impossible to justify building at a rate as low as between 18 and 21 dwellings per ha. These densities can only imply the building of large detached houses.