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Representation ID: 3235

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Ms Heather Jones

I don't agree with this approach because it has been to shown to fail and is not an effective way of getting developer contributions to infrastructure.

A case in point is the recently approved Sun Lane development at Burley in Wharfedale. Early planning submissions from the developer CEG indicated the developer would build a new primary school at the site. Over time and subsequent submissions, this contribution was watered down to the point where CEG will only make available, for ten years, a piece of land for someone else (probably the council using taxpayers money) to build a school. At the end of ten year period, the developer gets the piece of land back. This is a shockingly bad deal for Bradford taxpayers. How on earth did Bradford's planning officers let it slip through?