AD3/H - Main Street / Addingham Bypass (East)

Support

Representation ID: 379

Received: 22/02/2021

Respondent: Mr Neil Godden

Whilst no-one in the village really wants any new housing if it can be avoided and that some areas are more controversial than others it is undeniable that further infill to the bypass is the most logical answer to the requirement. It is logical and the access is already there. I would wish to ensure that all the footpaths remain in place as this is a primary route of access to the land south of the bypass for walkers.

Object

Representation ID: 403

Received: 23/02/2021

Respondent: Addingham Civic Society

Green belt
Far too many,Infrastructure will not cope-roads,schools etc.
Will make a huge block of houses with a small break which inevitably will be infilled.

Object

Representation ID: 559

Received: 27/02/2021

Respondent: Mr David Park

I strongly object to the housing proposals for Addingham AD3. The proposed site is green belt land and should be ring-fenced against any development. A further 49 properties will place undue pressure on current drainage and sewage provision which already struggles at times to cope with the current load. New homes will result in more children and more pressure on places in the local primary school, and catchment areas for local secondary schools will tighten. We fear that St. Paul's Rise will take the brunt of construction traffic for several years to come, and after that the extra traffic from the new housing. This development, together with the other planned developments, will turn what should be a village into an urban sprawl adversely affecting the environment for all those living in the village. Brown field sites throughout the Bradford District should ALL be utilised before turning to green belt land.

Object

Representation ID: 562

Received: 27/02/2021

Respondent: Mrs Erin Keating

My primary concern is the increase in traffic up and down St Pauls Rise both during and after construction. I would be more supportive if considerations were put in place to reduce the speed at which cars can travel along the road (speed humps would be preferable) once the development is concluded.

Object

Representation ID: 585

Received: 01/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Andrew Best

This area is currently Green Belt, with ancient hedgerows and significant wildlife interest. When the Addingham Neighbourhood Plan was overwhelmingly approved by the residents of the village, following extensive public information/Q and A sessions and a village-wide consultation, it demonstrated that there was no requirement to develop the Green Belt.

This area is distant from bus stops and other local facilities. There is little doubt that it will create significant additional traffic on both St Paul's Rise and Southfield Lane- both of which are currently quiet estate roads, with children playing etc.

Development of this site seems to fly in the face of the idea/necessity of sustainable development, with needless destruction of habitat and green space with its subsequent impact on the landscape, biodiversity and sustainability of the area.

Object

Representation ID: 650

Received: 02/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Russell Watt

No new infrastructure to support additional volume of traffic throughout the village. St Paul’s Rise and Southfield Lane already busy routes with further compounding this. Further reduction in green areas throughout the village spoiling its rural characteristics. Protected wildlife species in adjoining fields that could be under threat if hunting habitats reduced. Heavy construction traffic would result pollute and damage the local area and the village is not built for heavy vehicles driving through. This was abundantly clear recently when an accident on the bypass resulted in all traffic diverted through the village causing it to grind to a halt. Green belt area being considered when surely there must be other areas better suited to preserve the status quo of the village. U turn on core strategy revised in 2019 to reduce volume of new homes required

Object

Representation ID: 655

Received: 02/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Marc Harrison

I have lived on the corner of st johns Avenue for 7 years now and in that time I have noticed a significant increase in traffic through the village and st. Paul's rise. Often vehicles are travelling over the 20mph speed limit and I fear for the many young children who live in this area. Any development would cause too big an increase in traffic, especially with no bus stops close by. Everyone would travel by car. The main road has doubled in activity over the past 7 years with vehicles passing through the village from Ilkley and Silsden, driving towards Bolton abbey and Harrogate. Another route to Bolton abbey and Harrogate bypassing the village would need to be put in place before developing Addingham any further. People have to park on main street so large parts of it are only passable in one lane only.

Object

Representation ID: 707

Received: 03/03/2021

Respondent: Ms Rachel Nickolds

Addingham is a beautiful village, mainly due to the surrounding countryside and the wildlife it encourages. I feel that building houses on green belt surrounding the village will not only take away from the beauty of the area, but will also drive wildlife out of natural habitats. There aren’t many places just a 40 minute drive from the city centre where you can take country walks and see curlews on a regular basis. I also fail to understand how this creates affordable housing when according to your report, the average price of houses in Addingham is £300k, which is almost double the average price of houses in West Yorkshire. There are surely more affordable/non-green belt locations to build houses? I can’t help but feel this is a greedy way of building more expensive and profitable houses, and feel disappointed that Bradford council would prioritise this over preserving the natural habitats.

Object

Representation ID: 813

Received: 06/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Ian Taylor

Access to the proposed site, even if widened or improved, is wholly inadequate and would result in large amounts of additional traffic on what are currently quiet residential streets.

Object

Representation ID: 828

Received: 06/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Stuart Benson

As both St Pauls Rise and Southfield Lane are both accessed from Old Station Way the amount of traffic on already a heavily parked road will increase some 50% or even more. This leading on to an already busy and congested main road out of the village which either way you go east or west. Not to mention the school crossing at the road junction. There is also the side roads that lead on to Old Station Way that even now have a problem entering the road due to the parking. Numerous cars on this road have been damaged due to the amount of large vehicles going up and down and this will only increase with construction lorries.

Object

Representation ID: 850

Received: 06/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Adrian Phillips

The road access is inadequate. Primary school oversubscribed. Will it be significantly enlarged? Ilkley Grammar School significantly oversubscribed, is a new Secondary school to be built? What about sewers? No protection for the rural environment in this plan, as the proposed site both productive farm land, and also Green belt. The land to be built on mitigates flooding. Existing estate has families with young children, and many retired people. Increased traffic volumes will have a detrimental impact, making it less safe for children and elderly people. Almost all of the former sites of local economic activity, have had houses built on them. Negligible demand for changing the economic status of the village. House building would be an unsustainable manner in which to increase economic activity. Industrial/economic centres need somewhere characterful and environmentally wholesome to which people can escape for a quiet weekend walk, Addingham is just such a place.

Object

Representation ID: 864

Received: 07/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Carol Miller

Wholeheartedly object to building on green belt land when the local district plan had identified more suitable sites. Will increase traffic flow on narrow already congested roads to a dangerous level, put extra strain on an already groaning health system, not enough school places, struggling infrastructure eg. Water supply, gas and electricity supply. Also damage to the unique character of a beautiful village on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. This also applies to the proposed building on the west field as well.

Object

Representation ID: 905

Received: 07/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Ian Park

This is beautiful green belt land and to suggest that the entrance could be from Southfield Lane is madness. There exists lovely woodland and hedgerows and a beck up onto the moor there plus a well-used and loved footpath. That would be destroyed if a road was to be put through to the new estate. It would adversely impact Southfield Terrace which I would have thought has some sort of ‘grade status’. In addition, Southfield Lane is a narrow road with on road parking. No way could it cope with another 100+ cars per day minimum; most houses would have more than two cars per household. The angular sharp turn at the bottom before it joins St Paul’s Rise can not sustain the extra traffic. This area of Addingham could not sustain 49 more houses. A road here would definitely destroy barn owl habitat.

Object

Representation ID: 960

Received: 08/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Jenny Jarrett

49 houses are planned for Addingham Bypass (East) with traffic using the Southfield Lane into St Paul's Rise, which is basically a single track road, with passing places, because of cars parked at the sides. The additional housing means at least 100 more cars, plus vehicles from deliveries and tradesmen. Travelling up and down St Paul's is not for the faint hearted in winter weather and with these additions, it would be near impassable. 49 houses would increase the flood risk - with all the extra concrete, where is the water going to drain? At 5.15.26 ".....consequently, Main Street is now a quieter local thoroughfare". Really? have you tried getting through the village when we are not locked down?? This is before the extra housing planned for Chapel Street and Church Street etc. No mention is made of additional infrastructure.

Object

Representation ID: 1189

Received: 10/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Michael Bolton

The proposed destruction of two important parts of the valued landscape, used for recreation and as green corridors for wildlife, is in direct contravention of the spirit and the letter of the National Planning Policy Framework updated 19th February 2019. It also opens the way for the remainder of the site to be infilled with the total loss of this green landscape.

Object

Representation ID: 1427

Received: 13/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Susan Robins

Building here would adversely affect wildlife and access for villagers to open fields and healthy exercise

Object

Representation ID: 1580

Received: 14/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Daniel Keating

This proposed access for this site would exacerbate the SIGNIFICANT existing road safety issues around the junctions of 1) bolton road and main st, 2) old station way and main st and 3) old station way and ridley fold and 4) old station way and west croft.

There are already safety and congestion issues created by traffic volumes and (legitimately) parked cars on all of these routes. 49 new residences could mean as many as 100 additional owners' vehicles using this corridor multiple times every day.

This would be a significant safety issue both 1) during construction and 2) once the residences are in place

In addition
1) the proposed site is green belt land (see earlier comments re: the % of proposed addingham development on GB vs the % for the rest of Bradford)
2) village infrastructure cannot support 49 new homes on this site

Support

Representation ID: 1622

Received: 15/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Charlotte Jarvis

I support the proposed develpment AD3/H, as I recognise more houses are needed

Object

Representation ID: 1639

Received: 15/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Rachael Sharples

The need to protect the medieval hollow lane and hedgerow also the small beck. An ecological survey would need to be done to protect birds from the moor . Also there needs to be surface water management so the site does not overload the Town Beck and contribute to flooding 7 devaluing of other houses within the village

Object

Representation ID: 1650

Received: 15/03/2021

Respondent: Ms Nicola Morgan

I think that the site is totally unsuitable in that providing 49 homes will incur far too much traffic for the available roads All traffic would come down into Old Station Way and cause unbelievable congestion going into Main road. The plans to build a total of 181 houses, 49 on this site, is impossible for the structure of our village, the school is too small to accommodate more children as are the surrounding schools for higher education in Ilkley. I believed that green belt was sacrosanct and there to protect the environment and I believe that it is in the interest of the mental health of the community to save our green spaces, and look after our natural environment. It should be kept as a conservation area.

Object

Representation ID: 1770

Received: 16/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Terence Shaw

Reference AD3/H - Main Street / Addingham. We object to building on green belt land making addingham village into one large housing estate between St. Paul’s and Coppy road estate . These fields are an important habitat for nesting barn owls which have been here for several years rearing young . They are seen daily hunting over these fields . There are also bats and hedgehogs also sadly in decline . In summer the field becomes a wild flower meadow supporting butterfly’s and bees. A stream to the village beck runs through this site . There is no infrastructure to support all these houses ,particularly sewage drains ,which the houses on St. Paul’s have had numerous problems. Access is an issue for one small road serving St. Paul’s and the proposed site making it a large cul de sac ,a danger to children going to school and the elderly .

Object

Representation ID: 1777

Received: 16/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Angela Hill

I do not wish to see more traffic on our roads nor the damage to the green belt.

Object

Representation ID: 1814

Received: 16/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Fiona Curtin

This site is adjacent to a conservation area which without doubt will be adversely affected by such a large scale development. A development of this site on greenbelt land will damage and affect the historical character of the village. This site will have a major impact on greenbelt and not clear reasons for the release of greenbelt have been provided. The site is not close to transport links with the nearest bus stop almost half a mile away. We face the issue of increased cars and driving is a necessity, leading to pollution and increased carbon emissions.

Object

Representation ID: 1854

Received: 16/03/2021

Respondent: Dr Mick Dunne

This is an area of green belt. It forms a wildlife corridor (e.g. barn owls) flying from lower down the village to access hunting grounds above the bypass. There will be considerable disturbance (physical, light and noise) of resident wild life e.g. deer, rabbits, hedgehogs, voles, mice, shrews, bats, amphibia and a wide range of invertebrates.... as housing encroaches on green land rather than brown field sites. Any reduction or manicuring of mature trees and inevitable drainage management will exacerbate this impact. There are significant infrastructure-related issues such as increased traffic generation up Old Station Way (a difficult road) and an already stretched drainage system that floods in times of heavy rain. There will be a significant visual impact on this dwelling and some loss of privacy. This development combined with the others do not take account of the limited resources offered by Addingham e.g. very small primary school.

Object

Representation ID: 1935

Received: 17/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Jane Welby

Whilst not directly affecting me, my concerns are that the facilities including the schools in the local area do not have sufficient capacity for proposed residents and therefore would require more car use to use facilities outside the local area with an associated increase in environmental considerations.

Object

Representation ID: 1949

Received: 17/03/2021

Respondent: Mr B Brown

The general plan with the increase in housing is too great for a 'Local Services Centre' and would change its village character and involve loss of precious green field land.
The plan for AD3/H would result in an approximate 20% increase in houses needing access to roads Old Station Way and St Paul's Rise resulting in increased traffic pollution, noise and on-street parking. A particular safety concern would be increased traffic at the junction between Old Station Way and Main Street which has very limited safe sightings for cars entering Main Street from Old Station Way.
In summary this site would deprive the village and nature of a green field and increase all the pressures of traffic in this area and in an already congested part of the village

Object

Representation ID: 2025

Received: 17/03/2021

Respondent: Professor Rick Battarbee

If development is allowed it will be important to:

• Protect the integrity of the medieval hollow lane and hedgerow along the northern boundary by blocking vehicular access from Southfield Lane and leaving a wide wildlife buffer strip along the southern boundary line;
• Protect the small beck running down the eastern edge of the site by creating a riparian buffer zone along the entire length of the boundary;
• Conduct a detailed ecological survey to identify the impact of house building on the wader populations associated with the S. Pennine Moor SPA to the south and the hunting range of the local barn owl population in the field to the north.
• Ensure that surface water from this site especially is managed using SuDS and not allowed to enter drains that ultimately join Town Beck on Main St.

This is a response on behalf of the Addingham Environment Group

Support

Representation ID: 2234

Received: 19/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Malcolm Secrett

AD3/H Main St/Addingham Bypass East - If development is allowed it will be important to:

• Protect the integrity of the medieval hollow lane and hedgerow along the northern boundary by blocking vehicular access from Southfield Lane and leaving a wide wildlife buffer strip along the southern boundary line;
• Protect the small beck running down the eastern edge of the site by creating a riparian buffer zone along the entire length of the boundary;
• Conduct a detailed ecological survey to identify the impact of house building on the foraging opportunities for the wader populations associated with the S. Pennine Moor SPA to the south and the hunting range of the local barn owl population in the field to the north.
• Ensure that surface water from this site especially is managed using SuDS and not allowed to enter drains that ultimately join Town Beck on Main St.

Object

Representation ID: 2617

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Professor Robert Smith

As stated before, this is the greenbelt site of which I object most strongly. The access for an additional 49 houses onto Southfield Lane or St Paul's Rise, both leading into the steep Old Station Way, which in icy conditions is especially problematic, and then turning onto Main Street at a blind corner where there is congestion from parked vehicles drastically increases this to become a serious traffic black spot. There is a crossing point opposite for children walking to the primary school which also makes it a danger zone, and a nearby nursery. The development of this site would destroy the very heart of the village.

Object

Representation ID: 2690

Received: 21/03/2021

Respondent: Miss Lesley Barnard

Another destruction of a green space and surely too great a distance from amenities for most people to access on foot. Any junction onto the Main Street is difficult to encounter with the large volume of traffic going up and down the village and this would only make matters worse.
Where are all these people going to work? They will need to travel to Ilkley or Silsden for a train which then begs the question of where they will park at the relevant train stations. Or will they drive to the bus stop in the village and clog up our already crowded side streets?
The A65 into Ilkley is already over subscribed and at best, a dangerous place to be during rush hours.