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Representation ID: 4932

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Bradford Shipley Travel Alliance

This response is from Bradford-Shipley Travel Alliance, in furtherance of the statement that its allied organisations support (www.bsta.org.uk), without distracting from any comments that any of those organisations may make.
The ‘reasonable alternatives’ to SP9 suggested in the draft Plan seem very much ‘weaker’ than the proposed SP9 itself. Instead, the proposal should be strengthened by alternatives that specify much more clearly how the aims will be achieved.
Within the draft Plan there are aspirations for traffic-free, parking-free developments. How will these be ensured? What restrictions and encouragement will investors be given to ensure that these aspirations will be kept? Whatever incentives and restriction there are must be precise and enforceable and referred to in SP9.
There should be pre-planning actions so that planning applications are already compliant with climate emergency policy when they are submitted.