BU1/H - Sun Lane, Ilkley Road

Object

Representation ID: 5543

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Judith Longfield

By building on this green belt site the plan DOES NOT recognise the importance of landscape and green belt. In addition to the infrastructure concerns previously outlined (rail and road in particular) there seems to be no clear idea either as to where any extra secondary school provision will come from.

Object

Representation ID: 5579

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Peter Jenkins

If this project does go ahead it will cast doubt on the correct application of many of the more critical conditions aspired to in this document – green belt last choice for development, required infrastructure, lack of likelihood of flooding etc.

Object

Representation ID: 5633

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Dr Tomas Holderness

I object to the scale of the proposed site of the Sun Lane development. The scale will substantially change the character of the village. The environmental impact of the development - given prevalence of car ownership and development on Greenbelt land which will result habitat loss - there is inadequate provision for the detrimental environmental impact a development of this scale will have during our climate crises. Furthermore, existing infrastructure is at capacity; road, rail, schooling, and healthcare and I am not convinced that the provisions outlined here will provide suitable capacity. Simply put, the plan recognizes the lack of non-green belt land in Burley which is a clear indicator that the village could not support an increase in population of this magnitude. A significantly smaller development on the same site would be more feasible.

Object

Representation ID: 5662

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Simon Hoare

BU1/H
No exceptional circumstances to build on Greenbelt. The building of a School could have supported the case but CEG are not building a School and neither will Bradford Council confirm that they are.
The number of houses allocated to Burley has been made on the basis of maximising profit from this 500 house scheme. Exactly what additional facilities are being provided as part of this scheme? The existing residents of Burley can expect longer waiting list at the doctors. Longer commutes due to road congestion as well as busier trains to Leeds which are already full at peak times (a low % of people commute to Bradford)The long term damage to the Greenbelt will change the character of the entire valley for good. The decimation of wildlife. Including Barn Owls, Curlews and Bats is an absolute scandal. Add that to the fact it’s being built on a flood plain!

Object

Representation ID: 5864

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Christina Powne

Totally inappropriate over development of precious Green belt. Ribbon development along A65.
Local services unable to cope eg schools, transport, medical etc
Area prone to flooding

Object

Representation ID: 5881

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Isabel Joyce Russell

The Sun Lane and Scalebor housing proposals are totally impractical and against current policy that it appalls me that residents are presented by such poor planning proposals: building on green belt when brown field sites available and also placed nearer to available job opportunities, thus less travel to work.

Both sites unsuitable 1) flood plain 2) on a hill. Both locations are inhabited with wild life, rare birds and plants and Sun Lane in particular an outdoor reserve for local residents to walk without driving anywhere. Then, the support services are inadequate for such an enormous developments. Not sufficient school places, access to transport and carparking for rail travel...already a problem, The Surgery would not be able to cope without expansion. I could go on but we have been objecting about Sun Lane for several years now and all such previous objections I support again in making this latest objection.

Object

Representation ID: 6043

Received: 01/03/2021

Respondent: Kathleen Smith

I object to the proposed housing developments on green belt land in Ilkley, Addingham and Burley in Wharfedale.

Apart from destroying the environment, are there plans to increase the infrastructure to accommodate the large numbers of residents who will occupy the houses. Our schools are full and the existing residents have difficulty getting an appointment at our doctors' surgeries.

The traffic through Ilkley is horrendous and parking is impossible at the weekends.

During the week people travel to Ilkley to take the train into Leeds or Bradford and park their cars on the roads outside resident's houses making peoples lives a misery.

If these proposals go ahead, no doubt in the future Addingham, Ilkley and Burley will become one if further development is allowed.

Please take into consideration the views of the people who live in these areas and reject any further development on green belt land.

Object

Representation ID: 6088

Received: 05/03/2021

Respondent: Joanne Sexton

Green belt
Size of development

Object

Representation ID: 6105

Received: 06/03/2021

Respondent: Cathy Suzuki

Loss of green belt - well being, wildlife, air quality

Object

Representation ID: 8134

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Eleanor Statham

The size of the development is disproportionate to the village as a whole - I don't believe the village facilities (schools, doctors, shops etc) and transport links (roads and trains etc) could withstand an additional thousand or more people using them on a regular basis. I am also seriously concerned about the destruction of the greenbelt land of Sun Lane in particular. Why are BDMC not looking at alternative brownfield sites?

Object

Representation ID: 8135

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Benjamin Statham

The Sun Lane development will damage the local ecology, barn owls, egrets and curlews all feed on the land, with barn owls using the local trees to nest in. Deer also use the land to graze. More development means less habitat. Also, the sewerage systems are already polluting the wharfe, with recent commitments to clean the Wharfe, I do not see how a development of this size will integrate with an antiquated waste and sewerage system, one that frequently discharges waste matter, and with it, harmful bacteria, into the river.

Also, the fields will no longer act as areas that absorb water coming off the moors, which will exascerbate the flooding that part of the river is prone to, affecting business owners, and people commuting along the valley.

Object

Representation ID: 11263

Received: 17/03/2021

Respondent: Anne Eady

Wharfedale provides a green corridor through an urbanised landscape. Once developed in Addingham, Ilkley and Burley in Wharfedale, it will be changed forever. Wildlife must not be displaced.

Not necessary to build on Green Belt. Brownfield register shows Bradford has plenty sites, with other underutilised sites being considered before Green Belt. Urban/rural distinction should be maintained.

Eastern approach to Ilkley will be ruined by development of IL3/H. There are no exceptional circumstances for Green Belt boundary changes. Traffic pressure is a major issue – 300 homes will make it worse.

Use available office space for residential and look to locate housing closer to work places. Makes sense to reinvigorate cities and larger towns with housing and green spaces rather than countryside.

Plan should focus on quality of life for existing residents and workers rather than growth. Promises of environmental protection, mitigation schemes and better quality housing need to be kept.

Object

Representation ID: 11981

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Chris Inglehearn

Wish to add my voice to many others objecting to this development.

Object as local roads are overcrowded, train station/services are at capacity and secondary schools are full – meaning pupils have to be driven miles to school

Above all, object because there is a climate emergency – last thing anyone needs to concrete over more Green Belt land. There are many brownfield sites in Bradford and houses built there would be more affordable for young people. Why build on green field around Burley? Site is home to wildlife and abuts Sun Lane Nature Reserve. Would ruin a beautiful part of the world, and further damage our already battered local wildlife and flora.

Wharfedale risks becoming an extended finger of the Leeds/Bradford conurbation, with no gaps to say where one village ends and another begins. This is an act of appalling environmental vandalism and I object very strongly indeed.

Object

Representation ID: 12001

Received: 20/03/2021

Respondent: Kelli Zezulka

I would like to formally register my objection to the proposed building plans in Ilkley (IL1/H, IL2/H, IL3/H and IL4/H), Burley-in-Wharfedale (BU1/H and BU2/H), and Addingham (AD1/H, AD2/H, AD3/H, AD4/H, AD5/H, AD6/H, AD7/8 and AD8/H), particularly those that are proposed on current green belt sites.

The current infrastructure of all three of these areas will not support further housing developments and the concomitant rises in population. The proposals would significantly change the character of these towns and the surrounding areas -- the Ilkley proposals and the Burley Sun Lane proposal, in particular, would devastate the local environment and wildlife.

None of this building should be allowed to go ahead, and no building should be allowed on green belt sites across the district full stop.

Object

Representation ID: 12333

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Mrs Carol Lynne Wright

I write to object to the proposed development to build houses on the Green Belt between Ben Rhydding and Burley-in-Wharfedale reference sites IL1/H Wheatley Grove (130 dwellings), IL3/H Coutances Way (155 dwellings) and BU1/H Sun Lane, Ilkley Road (500 dwellings.)

• Green Belt. The fundamental aim of Green Belt is to prevent urban sprawl by keeping the land permanently open. It is the responsibility of Bradford Council to protect the Green Belt and build new housing by maximising the potential of brown field sites and only to consider any infringement on Green Belt in very ‘exceptional circumstances’ and only then after reasonable consultation and agreement with residents in the locality. I wholly object to Bradford councils’ proposals to build on these sites as they are not in keeping with Green Belt Policy.

Object

Representation ID: 15601

Received: 04/06/2021

Respondent: Sarah Lawson

I am writing to voice my full support for our Parish Council’s objection to the planned development of the Sun Lane site.

I am against the development particularly as it will destroy our green belt land.

Object

Representation ID: 15676

Received: 18/03/2021

Respondent: Joe Wareing

•Lack of consideration to impact on infrastructure. Road network is already extremely busy. These huge developments would add to that.
•A65 is already busy with queuing traffic. Whealtey Road is a complete bottle neck, under the train bridge and junction with Valley Drive are dangerous.
•Train network is average at best.
•These areas are reaching capacity and cannot take extra vehicles.
•Land is Green Belt. Development would become an eyesore and destroy the feel of entering Ilkley.
•Land is home to wildlife and has flooding issues.
•Why are developers being allowed to profit from building homes in unsuitable locations without regard for impact on the community.
•Developers should be held accountable for impact on road network, flooding risk, school capacity, and make substantial contributions to resolve these issues.
•Ilkley Grammar at capacity. Another school should be planned and built concurrently if the houses go ahead.
•IL3/H could be used for a new secondary school.
•Students shouldn’t be expected to travel to Keighley to access school.
•Houses should be built on derelict/brownfield sites.
•Consider creating another car parking level at Tesco to ease current parking issues.

Object

Representation ID: 15930

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Robert Whiting

I fully support the comments made in the recent submission by Burley Parish Council on the overall proposals and I'm particularly concerned about the impact that the proposed 610 homes will have on village infrastructure. The Sun Lane development will in itself have a very significant negative impact on; currently overstretched schooling provision; currently overstretched medical services; currently (in non-pandemic times) packed trains at peak commuting times and associated inadequate parking provision at the station car park; and overall traffic volumes. Rectification of these infrastructure issues MUST HAPPEN in advance of large housing developments creating the foreseen problems NOT once they've happened.

Object

Representation ID: 16620

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: James N Wright

Green Belt - It is the responsibility of Bradford Council to protect the Green Belt and build new housing by maximising the potential of brown field sites and only to consider any infringement on Green Belt in very ‘exceptional circumstances’ and only then after reasonable consultation and agreement with residents in the locality.

Object

Representation ID: 17326

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Niall Cahill

•Proposed developments are on green belt further contributing to the urbanisation of lower Wharfedale.
•Area is recognised as a scenic and sensitive natural landscape. Increasing development will take away this natural landscape and habitats for wildlife. Development will reduce the small wildlife corridors between the villages.
•Concern about the reduced amount of green belt between Burley-in-Wharfedale and Ben Rhydding. This would impact on the character of the area and increase urbanisation.
•Concerns about the safety of future residents from the risks of flooding. Sun Lane and Coutances Way sites are prone to flooding.
•Concerns of impact on local infrastructure, particularly secondary school places. Additional proposed developments will increase demand on places, the impacts of which haven’t been addressed.
•Road safety and congestion concerns at the Sun Lane and Coutances Way sites. These are already congested roads and additional traffic will make this worse.

Object

Representation ID: 17470

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Tom Birch

•Changes represent an unjustified encroachment on greenbelt, impairing enjoyment of surrounding area. It represents a material deviation from the NPPF which the plan claims to adhere to.
•Building houses on the greenbelt between Ilkley and Burley is not an emphasis on the redevelopment of brownfield sites or a measure/sensitive approach to greenbelt release. The plan contradicts itself against stated intensions in paragraphs 1.1.3 and 1.2.9.
•The Plan’s spatial vision does not include any protection of the greenbelt and is not in line with the NPPF. Its absence leads to the belief that the council have not considered the greenbelt seriously and that the plan is not in line with the government’s policies it claims to be. Although Policy SP5 mentions greenbelt it need needs to be in the spatial vision.
•Unsure there is legal basis to continue with the plan given the above points. You have not done due-diligence by incorporating local opinion before creating such an insensitive proposal.
•Development of brownfield sites in Bradford should be the focus of the plan, aimed at regenerating a deprived area.
•Development should be focused where it is needed rather than being distribute across the district.

Object

Representation ID: 19384

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: John McCabe

I wish to add my support to Burley Parish Council relating to the issues regarding the proposal in the plan to allocates 625 new homes for Burley in Wharfedale, including 500 homes at Sun Lane (planning permission now approved) and 110 at Scalebor House.

It is totally unsustainable for the many reasons listed by Burley Parish Council in their report especially those relating to medical provision and education for a village of this size as well as taking into consideration the number of additional vehicles this will generate on local roads which are already at saturation point.

Object

Representation ID: 19387

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Jenefer McCabe

I wish to add my support to Burley Parish Council relating to the issues regarding the proposal in the plan to allocates 625 new homes for Burley in Wharfedale, including 500 homes at Sun Lane (planning permission now approved) and 110 at Scalebor House.

It is totally unsustainable for the many reasons listed by Burley Parish Council in their report especially those relating to medical provision and education for a village of this size as well as taking into consideration the number of additional vehicles this will generate on local roads which are already at saturation point.

Comment

Representation ID: 19912

Received: 01/04/2021

Respondent: Natural England

We note that the following allocations are on land which may be best and most versatile agricultural land. The plan should safeguard the long term capability of such land (NPPF para 170).

In order to inform the sustainability appraisal and ensure an accurate assessment of the impact of the plan on soil resources we recommend that allocations over 5ha, or at least those over 20ha, have ALC surveys undertaken in order to determine the ALC grade and help inform master planning and soil handling going forward.

Object

Representation ID: 20144

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: James Cooper

•I object to the development planned on Sun Lane. This development is for a large 22.1ha green belt housing estate. I understand that there is a lot of pressure on the council to build more homes to try to bring house pricing down and therefore to try to solve the issue of the housing crisis.
•The attached PDF and the link to the LSE blog below provides details some of the issues with building new housing and provides other solutions. This may give Bradford Council more thought as to whether to sacrifice green belt land in this possibly failing pursuit. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/tackling-the-uk-housing-crisis/
•Because of these articles and many others, I do not believe that the risk of using green belt land to meet your quota is worth it. Once a green belt is built on, it is gone. There are plenty of projects on brownfield sites, such as the construction at the old mill in Burley-in-Wharfedale I support. Please read these articles and reconsider the location of the construction, as damage to local wildlife and surrounding area will be detrimental in this project.

Object

Representation ID: 21021

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Ray Starling

With reference to the proposed development of 500 homes at Sun Lane . I would like you to record my opposition to this development. I am in total agreement with the response of Burley Parish Council. I don’t think the developers really appreciate the diverse wildlife that depends on those fields.

Object

Representation ID: 21281

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Alun Myden

I was disappointing to see that you had appealed the Secretary of States decision to refuse planning permission for the Sun Lane development in Burley in Wharfedale.

The decision to build on greenbelt land will lead to unnecessary destruction to natural habitats and local wildlife!

It seems like this development is being pushed through for financial reasons and lack of planning by Bradford Council, rather than actual housing needs. https://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/18773962.letter-burley-in-wharfedale-still-threatened-500-houses-sun-lane/

Object

Representation ID: 22171

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Judy Breckett

I would also like to register my great distress and disappointment about the proposed sun lane development particularly the impact on the environment and wildlife locally. This development is going completely in the wrong direction in terms of protecting the environment by concreting over green belt, damaging habitats of ground nesting birds such as Curlew (who are in serious decline in the UK) and adding to the significant air and noise pollution from traffic.

Object

Representation ID: 22386

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Helen Taylor

I have to add that I am personally devastated by the granting of permission to build 500 new houses at the Sun Lane site – it spoils the very essence of the place I enjoy and value, not to mention potentially years of building noise and disruption. At the same time we are facing another new build next door as permission has been granted, on appeal, for a new house next door, despite the planners recommendation that the site was too crowded and constitute overdevelopment. And meanwhile we’re trying to run a business from our home office and are forced to cope with construction noise for months at a time. What about our mental health! I don’t want to live here anymore.

Object

Representation ID: 22387

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Vivienne McCabe

I wish to add my support to Burley Parish Council relating to the issues regarding the proposal in the plan to allocates 625 new homes for Burley in Wharfedale, including 500 homes at Sun Lane (planning permission now approved) and 110 at Scalebor House.

It is totally unsustainable for the many reasons listed by Burley Parish Council in their report especially those relating to medical provision and education for a village of this size as well as taking into consideration the number of additional vehicles this will generate on local roads which are already at saturation point.