Object

Representation ID: 7210

Received: 10/03/2021

Respondent: Keith & Carol Brown

Number of people: 2

SH4/H and generally in and around the Shipley area.
1) The timing and speed of this consultation process:
2) List of Brownfield sites and vacant retail units in and around Shipley:
a) Tax office area, Saltaire
b) Disused former garden centre at Hirstwood locks.
c) Carneige Hall at the bottom of Carr lane,Shipley, unused for many years.
d) Valley road, previously residential being kept aside for possible road widening, and land to the side of the new fire station in the same location.
e) unused new builds for retail, there is one such building near the site of the old fire station and all empty properties and retail units in Shipley.
f) Although not in Shipley there is the site which was the old magistrates building in Bingley
h) Building and land abutting Dockfield road opposite the Carnegie site.
I) the site of the old public house, now knocked down, opposite Crossleys scrapyard.
3) Conservation of Trees, wild life and green belt.
There is a TPO 165 which extends into the trees on this particular plot of land SH4/H .
It is a very important habitat for wildlife: birds, owls, Deer; Foxes, Stoats, weasels, hedgehogs, and badgers butterflies & moths; hunting ground for bats, frogs, toads, snakes
4) Increase in traffic - road too narrow & used as rat runs. Increase in road safety issues.
5) Pollution and Air Quality on A650 and bypass
6) Flood risk. The land is always very wet and boggy after heavy rainfall.
Impact n heritage assets / farm buildings.
7) Impact on woodland
8) Local facilities ie schools over subscribed: medical practices, dentists and more public transport.
10)not to be in line with national planning policy and need to prove there are exceptional circumstances to release land from green belt.