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Representation ID: 3157

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Alan Wilcock

Fundamentally, there is no overall justification for the target housing numbers (1,703 dwellings per annum) over the 2020/2038 period given Bradford’s analyses and the current situation.

According to Bradford’s documents the population has increased by only 2,200 per annum over the last 7 years. Continuing at that rate would not require 1,703 dwellings per annum. In addition Bradford’s “Updating the Demographic Evidence February 2021” modelled a number of scenarios all of which had lower dwelling requirements ranging from 761 to 1,570 dwellings per annum; A reduction between 2,412 and 16,974 dwellings overall.

In a recent paper by Michael O’Connor and Jonathan Portes of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence 14 January 2021 “Estimating the UK population during the pandemic”, they concluded that instead of the UK population increasing by 350,000 it fell by 1.3 million in a one year.

There is no need to build on Green Belt.