Comment

Representation ID: 30121

Received: 04/03/2021

Respondent: Simon Cooke

Wilsden [housing requirement] has been significantly reduced and that the Council has not taken the sensible decision to balance the delivery of homes across Bingley Rural, preferring instead delivery on a ‘village by village’ basis.
The SHLAA site on Haworth Road in Wilsden (between The Avenue and Shay Lane) is far more suitable for development than any of the proposed sites in Cottingley and especially the site between Lee Lane and March Cote Lane (CO1/H).
The unallocated site in Wilsden is better connected to public transport and the main B6144 that serves Bingley Rural and has the capacity to address several of the village’s needs (e.g., a new less constrained primary school) alongside meeting housing requirements for both Wilsden and Cottingley. I would ask that you reconsider the proposals on this basis. It may be that this single site approach also increases the chance of early delivery by providing an accessible, greenfield site with established developer interest.