SH4/H - Glenview Drive, Bankfield Road, Nabwood

Object

Representation ID: 2199

Received: 18/03/2021

Respondent: Mr James Sorsby

I strongly object to the proposed 164 houses on glenview rd site. This small piece of greenbelt meadow is a haven for local wildlife deer foxes rabbits voles bats badgers and a plethora of birdlife and fauna thrive in this small haven between busy over trafficked roads. These small green spaces between housing are beneficial to both humans and wildlife providing a tranquil
visually pleasing and mentally stimulating sensation that we humans need to thrive not to mention the benefits that the greenery provide in keeping down the extremely high pollution levels in the Bradford district.
The surrounding roads particularly the A650 has slow moving high polluting traffic for most of the day 7 days a week also the traffic around cottingley is absolutely chaotic at times (school pick ups/ drop offs). therefore it is vitally important for physical and mental health to preserve our valuable green urban spaces.

Object

Representation ID: 2228

Received: 19/03/2021

Respondent: Ms Stephanie Knight

1.1.2 of your own local policy highlights how since the impact of the pandemic "our ability to access nature, green and open spaces has been a top priority". Developing this site removes this opportunity FOREVER
This is part of the buffer zone between Shipley and Bingley, part of the function of green belt is to prevent neighbouring towns merging into one another. National planning framework section 13 emphasises the PROTECTION of green belt
Traffic: At least 164 extra cars entering a cul de sac into a 20mph residential neighbourhood. Most cars have more than one car. Also service vehicles
Pollution: Air pollution, noise pollution light pollution
Wildlife: this is part of a green corridor providing safety and roaming for wildlife who would then be forced to use busy roads, being killed and causing accidents.
Flooding: several natural springs arise on the land and would lead to flood risk further down

Object

Representation ID: 2247

Received: 19/03/2021

Respondent: Ms sharon snaylam

This area is an essential open space for the local community. This has become even more apparent during lock down,, people have been able to exercise locally, which is good on so many levels, encouraging well being & helping in the fight against obesity. The proposed building work would create an urban corridor from Bradford along to Bingley which would have a detrimental effect on the community, wildlife, landscape, environment. There is a lack of infrastructure, there are already very busy roads, this will add to air pollution, which is all ready high along the Bingley road. Bradford Council is committed to a zero carbon future, new homes & cars will not help with htis aim.

Object

Representation ID: 2312

Received: 19/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Keith Sutcliffe

Access to the proposed site will create traffic problems on Glenview Road where residents increasingly park on the road as is the trend nowadays.
In addition to the proposed development any development on the former Hallmark site and the golf course opposite to that building will create pressure on the local infrastructure. With schools and doctors surgeries at capacity.
In addition the local environment will suffer with the likely loss of trees and wildlife will be affected as their homes will no doubt be destroyed.

Object

Representation ID: 2337

Received: 19/03/2021

Respondent: Miss Elizabeth Morrison

The water table would be effected, possibly leading to flooding of lower housing and land . The site has been very boggy recently. Building would also interfere with the public footpath.
As there is only one way into site, the extra traffic would be excessive on such a narrow road producing extra air pollution and disturbance. Bankfield road is already used as a short cut for speeding cars.164 new houses would generate more than that number of vehicles. There are no nearby bus services.
There are no shops/ amenities close to the site and so it is likely that residents would use their cars for most purposes of travel.
Obviously there would be adverse effects on the natural environment. Removal of trees could presumably also effect the water run off on the steep site.
The grade11 buildings would be adversely affected.

Object

Representation ID: 2391

Received: 19/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Nathan Tanswell

It is a designated Greenfield site and therefore should not be used for housing.
Altogether, it is a site that would require a great deal of investment before any buildings for a young and mobile population can be considered.
Each new dwelling, i.e. 164 will have to accommodate at least 164 private cars to enable young children, the disabled or aged residents to reach schools, hospitals, doctors, dentists and shops. Even taxis, removal and delivery vans, the local refuse services, repairers, the police require road space and/or access. Few people are fit enough to run or walk down and up hill.
The Cottingley Cliff Road is already a very busy and noisy road and the same goes for the A650 at the bottom of the hill, where a large development is planned for the site alongside the Bankfield Hotel causing even more traffic congestion.

Object

Representation ID: 2393

Received: 19/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Rizwan Iqbal

This is a very quite and clean atmosphere . The wild life thrives in this area . The amount of traffic this new build will bring will destroy the environment in terms of sound, pollution and crime . People come to walk and jog in this clean and quite area. Lot of residents have chosen this area to live in their retirement because of its peace and quite. All the local residents I have met are extremely concerned and unhappy about this proposal . I strongly recommend that this proposal to build in our local area green belt be stopped as this is causing significant unhappiness and dissatisfaction in the area.

Object

Representation ID: 2400

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Miss Hazel Capstick

The area is greenbelt. It cannot sustain more houses there is no transport links. The roads and schools are full. Wildlife will be displaced. Pollution and traffic will increase

Object

Representation ID: 2445

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Miss Julia Priestley

Do not build on greenbelt. Building here will have significant impact wildlife and infrastructure( too near to bottleneck of the bypass).

Object

Representation ID: 2490

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Julia Graham

Although there is a choice of 2 arterial roads a lot of traffic will inevitably come to Bingley Road and Saltaire High Street and will significantly increase standing traffic and add to the already illegal level of air pollution. Although the council has a clear air zone plan this is not yet implemented so may or may not be effective. Also additional traffic would be domestic and not included in the clean air charges. I would strongly object to the removal of any wooded area shown in the plan as this directly contradicts the council policy of planting more trees. Requirements for builders to replace trees are not effective as the lack of replacement trees at the top of Carlton Road development has shown. Nor does the council have sufficient resources to ensure compliance.

Object

Representation ID: 2496

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Terence Parkinson

As a local resident my major objection is an inevitable rise in traffic within the Nab Wood area. Bank field Drive already experiences significant traffic issues with rat running from Cottingley Cliffe Road and from Avondale . There are already speed calming measures on Bankfield Drive which have had no significant effect on speed or volume of traffic. If anything the 20 mile speed limit increases danger as if you observe the speed limit you are more than likely to be overtaken. The traffic noise in this area is very high at busy periods.

Object

Representation ID: 2499

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Liz Charman

I have grave concerns regarding these developments and wish to object strenuously to them going ahead.

Concerns include;
Ground stability and drainage. Especially heightened flood risk to properties to the immediate North of the proposed site. Branksome Grove and Drive.
Greenfield run off rate increase. Underground streams/land drains are confirmed to exist. Ground water ingress will cause flood issues previously non existent.
Bats are known to nest here.
Loss of natural views.
Detrimental impact on nearby residential amenity.
Lack of infrastructure-transport links (including public transport, walking and cycling), drainage, educational, medicaletc).
Inability to cope with traffic volumes, linking as well to highway safety, added air pollution caused by vehicular traffic –especially in relation to larger housing developments of over 100 proposed units).

Further detrimental impact on already poor air quality.
Presence of viable alternatives –such as brownfield sites in Shipley or commercial premises repurposed for mixed residential/commercial.

Object

Representation ID: 2596

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Mark Fielding

1. Housing density too great already. The area is overdeveloped.
2. Lack of infrastructure to support development.
3. Impact on access to amenity for existing residents I.e. schools, health centres
4. No environmental impact assessment - this is the wrong sort of development in the wrong place. Additional population equates to more traffic, more air pollution in an already over polluted area.
5. Loss of vital green space and loss of visual amenity for immediate residents and wider community.
6. Impact on World Heritage Site buffer zone.

Object

Representation ID: 2598

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Crispin Bentley

This plan will add an intolerable volume of traffic to the already problematic main road through Cottingley.

Object

Representation ID: 2803

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Fred Maude

I Object to this planned development which ruins the surrounding green area when there are far more suitable brownfield sites elsewhere.
Bankfield Road is used as a rat run shortcut, with large amounts of speeding traffic at peak times, with the traffic avoiding going through Cottingley to access Cottingley Cliffe Road to head towards Bradford, any further housing developments nearby would make this situation much, much worse.
This Plan is both ill thought out and ill conveived !

Object

Representation ID: 2818

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Marian Itzin-Borowy

I wish to object to the selection of this area for housing development as:
- the area is part of the Green Belt which needs to be preserved; the building of housing would reduce the green barrier that currently exists between Shipley and Cottingley. The use of other brownfield sites should be explored further.
- it would destroy an area of mature woodland and wildlife habitat.
- it would impact negatively of water quality and the water courses in the site and surrounding area.
- it would generate an unacceptable volume of additional road traffic onto the residential roads in Nab Wood and would also add to the already highly congested Cottingley Cliff Road and Bradford Road (A650) .

Object

Representation ID: 2821

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Katie Prior

We wish to register our strong objection to these proposals.

They constitute significant loss of greenbelt land contradicting the NPPF and the council’s key plan directions. These should only be used in exceptional circumstances; we feel this does not fit that criteria.

There are existing water courses through the field and local area, building on this land will increase the risk of flooding in this area and other residential areas further downhill.

The number of new houses proposed will bring an increase in the level of traffic on roads in Nab Wood, with a seriously damaging increase in noise and air pollution.

The development increases the burden on availability of school places, already oversubscribed in the area, and access to other amenities, such as GP surgeries.

Building on the land will cause a damaging loss of wildlife habitat. The area supports deer, badgers, owls, bats amongst others.

Object

Representation ID: 2822

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Ms Helen Bowman-Wray

This site is a wildlife corridor with well used PROW access all around it. The amount of houses proposed without regard for access to local amenities nor provision for extra population will will have a detrimental affect to the people of Shipley. The access through the narrow Glenview Road will add to the already very busy junctions onto the A650 and the surrounding roads. The air pollution level is already at WHO action levels, and though the Council have acknowledged this with the Clean Air Zone, this development will surely make things worse.
The watercourse at the bottom end of this development is culverted under the A650 and has flooded on the road in recent years. The stream then runs down the back of houses on Branksome Drive to the River. Water retention works can only do so much and flooding is already a frequent event

Object

Representation ID: 2865

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Clare Buckley

The area already suffers from rat running and speeding, with a further 164 dwellings, both traffic and pollution will increase. The community is made up of families and the elderly; more traffic will result in more accidents. We are in a CAZ, surely Bradford Council should be trying to reduce not increase pollution.
My family and I regularly walk and run in the field. We pick blackberries and sloes there in the Autumn. The field has natural springs and is boggy. Planting more trees on the land would improve the flooding situation further down in the valley whereas building houses will not.
Roe deer come into our garden and we regularly see them in the fields along Cottingley Cliffe Road - these fields provide a green corridor and are a haven for wildlife.
Do not build on precious Greenbelt Land.

Object

Representation ID: 2938

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Dr Richard Melsom

SH4/H contains Rare Ghost moths, Early purple orchid, unidentified orchids, several Fritillary butterflies ,five species of mating raptors . Three species of bats and and arguably the most diverse habitat and abundant density of mating wildlife locally . It's unique situation makes it part of a corridor that links Northcliffe Park to St Ive's and by extension five National Parks within about 75 miles . A path through the middle of this meadow running east to west which has been extensively used for thirty years. , It can take thirty minutes to exit Nab Wood onto Cottingley Cliffe Road. It can take a similar time PM. . The crepuscular parking for the schoolchildren at Cottingley Village School must cause safety concerns. The air quality from the nearby A650 needs addressing as does the increasing surface water coming down to our garden turning the top into a bog..

Object

Representation ID: 2946

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Lydia Sharman

Traffic
Major concern due to the no of vehicles using Bankfield Rd as a rat run from Cottingley Cliffe Road down to the A650. This makes roads in the area dangerous. As a parent this a grave concern which additional traffic as the result of development of site SH4/H will only exacerbate.
Air Pollution
The significant increase in cars for this development circa 300 (plus SH5/6) would result in a significant rise in Air Pollution,. Air improvement must be a key consideration given the impact ‘poor’ air quality can have on the quality of lives of residents, in particular the young and elderly.
The lack of supporting infrastructure. ‘Good’ schools are also full, the plan makes no reference to addressing this.
Greenbelt site
In existence to prevent urban sprawl by keeping land open. The plans SH4/5/6 do nothing to support the principals of these sites and contravene their very purpose.

Object

Representation ID: 2999

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Soil and Structures Limited

I walk my children to school through these fields - Cottingley from Moorhead Lane. We have seen Sparrowhawk hunting in the top field, owls in the shorter days as well as small deer regularly hiding around the old mineshafts/trees. These encounters and the walk in the fields themselves offer me and the kids so much that it's hard to put into words - calm, wonder, peace, recovery, awe. We occasionally see other walkers but sadly, not often and so don't hold out much hope in an objection on the grounds of maintaining ecological havens within our towns. The wildlife corridor up Airedale will shut some more.

As a geotechnical consultant - the mine workings and mine shafts will likely add at least £200,000 to the ground costs.

Thank you
Russell Bowman
Soil and Structures Ltd

Object

Representation ID: 3023

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Reinhard Lenicker

The reasons for my objections to the development of SH4/H are:
1. It destroys green belt land
2. It destroys wildlife habitat
3. It reduces rain and surface water soak away land increasing flooding problems in the area
4. The building of 164 residentially units in SH4/H will create significant air pollution both during build and once they are occupies
5. It increases local traffic significantly to an area that already has traffic problem, significantly increasing air pollution
6. It puts additional strain on local overstretched amenities including clinics, oversubscribed schools and public transport
7. It erodes the separation of the Shipley and Cottingley towns

Object

Representation ID: 3028

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Ms Ginta Freiberga

The reasons for my objections to the development of SH4/H are:
1. It destroys green belt land
2. It destroys wildlife habitat
3. It reduces rain and surface water soak away land increasing flooding problems in the area
4. The building of 164 residentially units in SH4/H will create significant air pollution both during build and once they are occupies
5. It increases local traffic significantly to an area that already has traffic problem, significantly increasing air pollution
6. It puts additional strain on local overstretched amenities including clinics, oversubscribed schools and public transport
7. It erodes the separation of the Shipley and Cottingley towns

Object

Representation ID: 3039

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Miss Sarah Ball

As a local resident I am concerned about the environmental, social and health aspects of huge volumes of traffic trying to navigate our narrow residential road. There are frequent accidents at the junction of Bankfield Road as it is, increasing the traffic increases this risk.
Large volumes of traffic in this location will impact the lives of residents including those with young children.
The exit routes from Nab Wood onto the main roads are already busy, and the planning does not explain how more cars will be able to leave at peak times.
Local schools are oversubscribed and struggling with traffic volume currently.
The proposed land is home to countless species of wildlife.
Children in Nab Wood have no local park or green space except this land.

Object

Representation ID: 3051

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Luscious

Please do not consider this site because of the flood risk to other houses.

Object

Representation ID: 3055

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Miss Sorrel Stevens

-Site used for recreation
-Impact on animals...
-Impact on the peaceful vibe hanging over the street.
-The road won't be very safe anymore for children to ride bikes

Object

Representation ID: 3060

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Tina Sheehy

The proposal to change the green belt boundary is not in line with the National Planning Policy Framework which states greenbelt boundaries should only be altered in exceptional circumstances - available brownfield sites must be considered first and there is a need to promote sustainable patterns of development if green belt land is released. The Council needs to allocate housing to more brownfield sites across the Local Plan area (such as at Valley Road) instead of releasing greenbelt land.

This site is not sustainable due to the following negative environmental impacts. All are strong reasons to oppose this allocation:
Loss of mature trees and woodland
Impact on water quality
Flood risk will increase downhill from the site.
Air pollution and noise from additional cars
Loss of local greenspace that is important to residents’ wellbeing
Poor access to public transport (poor bus service) and local shops and services

Object

Representation ID: 3061

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs linda furze

The planning application purports to support education objectives, but there are already problems getting local school places. The statement is disingenuous. Pupils will have to travel to schools further away causing more congestion. The Aire Valley already has significantly high levels of air pollution and this application shows scant regard for the extra traffic and pollution that will be created. In addition, access to the site is poor. Roads to the site will become very busy and they are narrow and steep. Further congestion will occur at the New Close Road Junction. It is wrong to build on a greenbelt site; there are plenty of brown field sites. This planning proposal is a step in the wrong direction in terms of pollution, traffic and environmental goals. I object to plans that will have a detrimental effect on our health and well-being. This development has no benefit to our community.

Object

Representation ID: 3068

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Ms Giorgia Previdoli

This a very valued green area between two major roads with heavy traffic. Kids and adults from around houses enjoy this safe space to play and walk safely between Saltaire and Shipley, away from cars and lorries.