Object

Representation ID: 30202

Received: 10/03/2021

Respondent: Paul Redshaw

Public transport links to and from Silsden are considered to be adequate. Steeton and Silsden railway station is located 1.6km to the south of the town on the northern edge of neighbouring Steeton. This provides frequent links to Keighley, Bingley, Shipley, Bradford, Skipton and Leeds.

What is not been considered is the proximity of place. The plan assumes that Silsden is a township with no other communities beside it. The whole plan must be viewed without bias just to West Yorkshire., after all people don’t live in Silsden simply because it is in
West Yorkshire. It has wider benefits and these should not be ignored. Silsden lies beside the North Yorkshire Boundary, so it is very clear that the benefits of living in Silsden go much further than the Wet Yorkshire Boundary.

The transport and Accessibility statement fails to address this. As the crow flies Skipton in North Yorkshire is the same distance as Silsden is to Keighley, yet accessibility to Skipton through use of public transport is extremely difficult; thus anyone living in Silsden will tell
you how inadequate the public transport facilities are, because their are non directly.