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Representation ID: 5918

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

Baildon FOE -SP7
1. New housing development generates more vehicle movements. The Climate Emergency means that private car use needs to be driven down; not allowed to increase.
2. The phrase “support the shift” (to sustainable transport) does not mean anything much. It is a weak phrase. There needs to be a concerted effort, unwavering determination and change in culture to bring about the transformational change.
3. Bring the Bradford Cycle Strategy (‘Keeping the Wheels Spinning’) into the mainstream, embrace it properly, and let that inform the Local Plan. This is about “making Bradford District a place where is cycling is naturally a part of everyone’s daily life.”
4. Short pedestrian journeys can be made easier and safer by many of the guiding principles associated with School Streets and LTNs. Again, this ties in with the 15-minute neighbourhood concept.
5. See also our reference to Vauban, Germany, under SP4.