I support developer contributions, but as experienced in the Sun Lane case, they are insufficient and most gets consumed by BMDC to use in their own way rather than benefitting the areas which have been adversely affected by the development. As a result, developments in the Wharfe valley are being used politically to fund Bradford City and its Labour constituents. Is it a coincidence that the town most impacted, Burley has an MP who is of a different party and defeated the current leader of the Council when she tried to become an MP?

Para 3.15; BDMC is shying away from insisting that all developers create SANG's, and also missing the opportunity to apply this retrospectively, either to those developments with current PP but not yet brought to market, or to existing homes developed over the past 20 years to be funded with a unique precept charge annually to assist in funding the strategy.

The mitigation strategy needs a Governance Structure that allows Parish Councils & authorised bodies (Emergency services, Natural England, RSPB, Curlew Recovery partnership etc)