Object

Representation ID: 5260

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

Baildon & Shipley FOE – SP1
1. Addressing the climate emergency must be paramount. All other objectives need to be secondary. More green space, maintaining biodiversity, cleaner air, better public health etc will follow on naturally if the climate emergency is paramount.
2. Sustainable development is required, including securing the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change. All planning strategies, and the decisions taken in support of them, must reflect the Council’s ambition to help businesses and communities build a zero-carbon future and prepare for the impacts of climate change. Accordingly, planning policies and all planning decisions must be in line with achieving net zero carbon by 2038.
3. Reduction in traffic levels (especially private cars) needs to happen quickly.
4. A need for ‘net gain’ at top level in the document, is vague, and needs to be tightened up properly with social, economic and environmental objectives.