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Representation ID: 3483

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: NEAT

There should be no question of using "green belt" or "greenfield" sites for more building, especially within the city of Bradford.
Open space has vale for health, both physical and mental.
Open space encourages biodiversity, often in modest, unseen ways, such as encouraging insects and other invertebrates, which in turn support other wildlife.
Open space reduces flood risk by allowing areas for rainwater to soak into the earth.
This question and answer needs to be seen in the context of the inequality encased in SP3/Question 4, whereby the population of Bradford city is targeted for most of the building development.
The only priority for development sites should be the vast number of disused/under-used/derelict buildings in the city. Travellers arriving at Forster Square station used to get off the train to be welcomed by a burnt-out warehouse. That particular eyesore has gone but many more remain (Listerhills Road, Wapping School).