Consultation Question 133
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 25
Received: 09/02/2021
Respondent: Mrs Rachel MacLeod
Building on designated green belt
Land
Unsafe access to sites
Already overcrowded
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 36
Received: 09/02/2021
Respondent: Mr Luke Maunsell
There are massive safety concerns with these suggestions. The road is narrow, there is an estate with many children which is already facing high pressures as it is. There are too many cars currently, this would make it worse, and as a flood plain it could lead to problems with the water table. Access would be difficult and just as dangerous, the school does not have enough places and the number of houses is too small to justify the damage to the ecology and community. It would happen the aesthetics of the village and be apposed by residents strongly.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 40
Received: 09/02/2021
Respondent: Miss Lucy Woodman
Traffic and access issues as well as destroying our greenbelt for houses that we don't really need.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 45
Received: 10/02/2021
Respondent: Mrs Tracey Thompson
The suggestion that the construction of these homes would have an adverse effect on local wildlife and conservation is enough to prompt my objection. Not to mention that the primary school (with no crossing patrol) is already at capacity and 2 form entry. Many of the children who attend arrive in cars, through no fault of their parents who are en route to work. This means that the congestion in the village around the proposed access area is dangerous at several times per day, coupled with location of CoOp (which has no car park)
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 46
Received: 10/02/2021
Respondent: Mr Mathew Everard
This is a poor choice and would negatively impact the current residents of the oakworth area. Building on a green belt is not acceptable and would promote this for other developers. The oakworth area infrastructure isn’t capable of sustaining anymore. The liget road is tiny, cars are already overflowing and casing major problems, not to mention driving through keighley, pollution levels, air quality is surely going to negatively impacted
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 66
Received: 10/02/2021
Respondent: Mrs Lynne Wilson
Proposed sites have no access at the moment
The access opposite Slaymaker Lane would cause
accidents as cars parked on both sides leading to blind spots.
Level differences will cause major issues for the Oakworth Rd site and access from Maple Avenue is very narrow and congested already.
The site on Pasture Avenue is also narrow and has parked cars.
The roads in and around Oakworth already struggle with the volume of traffic
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 67
Received: 10/02/2021
Respondent: Miss Rebecka Wilson
I don't think this area is suitable to be built on, there is already too much traffic through the village especially from the road the co op is situated on.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 107
Received: 12/02/2021
Respondent: Mr Stephen Ives
Access concerns, road safety and infrastructure pressures are the main concerns I have. Victoria Street and surrounding streets are already clogged with limited parking in the area where all the main services are. There has been significant building in the village over recent years and I believe the village should not have to lose more green belt sites. The road in the centre of the village is narrow and cannot cope with increasing traffic.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 192
Received: 16/02/2021
Respondent: Mrs Assumpta Orourke
Re Oakworth . Village too small . Affect safety and destroy open countryside . Other buildings no longer in use should be considered . School unable to accommodate . Awful decision as destroy countryside and peaceful enjoyment of open countryside . Unacceptable pressure on amenities . Small narrow road used regularly by pedestrians . Narrow for cars to pass . More houses more pollution in this area . Unable to park in village even without this development . Green belt should be maintained and not developed for housing . Plenty brown sites could be used
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 196
Received: 16/02/2021
Respondent: Mrs Gemma Stjulien
I’m objecting to this development as this is the only wild meadow left in this area which a number of animals are using as there habitat and have done for years .
It’s a sanctuary that these animals have survived and thrived and grown to feel safe in for years .
we have beautiful families of deer each year that have built up there Trust and feel safe enough to raise young there year in year out .
And I have video evidence of this .
There are owls ,Bats , Mice , Moles , Voles , squirrels, newts .
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 254
Received: 17/02/2021
Respondent: Mrs Linda Wilson
Oakworth is developed to the point of services and roads are at the limit of what can be sustained. The primary school is already over subscribed. Oakworth is not suitable for any further developments with numerous new houses. There is also an environmental impact. New developments should be focused on sites nearer Keighley centre on the many sites that are not used, the change in town centre use with the decline of retail needs to be creative and help to preserve the surrounding countryside.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 484
Received: 25/02/2021
Respondent: Mr Neil Collins
Bradford has a plentiful supply of brownfield sites that have not been developed.
In her judgement dated 8/6/2020 in Aireborough Neighbourhood Development Forum vs Leeds City Council, Mrs Justice Lieven found that it was wrong to leave Green Belt sites in a development plan solely because the Council wished to reduce the numbers around the district proportionately. Green belt should be removed from the plan and brownfield sites built on first.
This judgement is surely just as relevant to Bradford.
Our Prime Minister's "Build Build Build" announcement on 30/6/2020 said brownfield building would be made easier to protect Green Belt. This should be bourne in mind and our Green Belt not built on.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 1012
Received: 09/03/2021
Respondent: Keighley Town Council
There are two areas of brownfield identified within the Village boundary Wide lane and Providence lane. The first has had seveal permissions on it though no development as yet the second is the site of the former Lower Providence Mill which has at present a mill chimney but no Mill. I suggest that greenfield is more important than a old chimney which if it is required to remain could form a feature on the site unless considered dangerous in which case it needs pulling down either way it would be a perfect place for homes.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 1524
Received: 14/03/2021
Respondent: Mr Mike Smith
Oakworth is already overdeveloped and has no need for additional housing putting strain on already limited facilities, these are green belt areas and should remain as such, there are many more suitable sites for development that are not going to have the environmental impact on a green belt area that this one will have.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 1684
Received: 15/03/2021
Respondent: Mrs Amanda Dunlop
Heavy traffic & Congestion through the village already. It simply cannot support all the additional traffic.
Strain on local amenities (school, shops, healthcare)
Additional pollution & health concerns relating to the above.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 2061
Received: 18/03/2021
Respondent: Miss Lisa Hustler
Over crowded already in village. School bursting, roads are too narrow and overly congested. No longer have a GP practice. Infrastructure can not cope with current dwellings never mind adding more.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 2104
Received: 18/03/2021
Respondent: Mr Russell Tabori
The area is designated green belt, regularly used by wild deer and birds. The local infrastructure is close to bursting as it is with out the potential addition of 95 more families. I foresee a huge increase in traffic and subsequent danger this brings, bad parking, aggressive driving, unenforced speed limits etc. No way would local doctors be able to facilitate this increase. Local schools can’t cope with increase, so catchment will be condensed and families who had children lined up for local schools will now be shipped into another catchment area. Parking at drop off and pick up time around co-op and oakworth primary is ridiculous, imagine another 100 cars mixed into this. The proposal is ludicrous and has the potential to increase risk to the local population during construction and post construction as well.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 2261
Received: 19/03/2021
Respondent: Ms Liz Ripard
The village is struggling to cope with current levels of traffic and there is already pressure on the very limited local amenities. There is only one small shop/post office till in the area. The village becomes impassable at school drop off/pick up times. New housing developments nearby have not been either completed, or fully taken up, which seriously questions the need for this additional number of houses.
This will degrade village life further for existing residents, especially older residents, who through infirmity are not able to access the green spaces further afield, and rely on these existing spaces for their exercise and wellbeing.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 2273
Received: 19/03/2021
Respondent: Mrs Kathleen Phillip
Green field sites should not be taken or built on an already busy area. The roads could not cope and the local services are stretched as it is with limited parking and narrow streets making access for infirm people as myself difficult.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 2477
Received: 20/03/2021
Respondent: Mrs Angela Jerwood
Having previous lived next to this area in Oakworth, I am extremely concerned regarding the issues of water drainage havent been addressed. water often comes down branshaw and slaymaker (and down lidget) in rivers, and the land in question and surrounding household gardens are quite often waterlogged. There is also not enough facilities to support schooling, health and traffic increase this would cause
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 2615
Received: 20/03/2021
Respondent: Mrs ann sands
When new houses are built they are usual bought by young couples with young children, the school can not take anymore children and there is no more room around the school to be built on. When the school is in operation no one from Larch Close and surrounding streets can get in or out also with the co-op open the street is too busy. If the houses are built on Sykes Lane OA2/H this will make a road through from Sykes Lane to Station Road, Planning permission was turned down a few years ago because of this.
When they built the new houses on Maple Grove/Privet Drive they found the sewerage and drains could not cope.
Also with the total of 95 houses been built each household will have 1 car or more all these extra cars will lead to heavy traffic and pollution through the village.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 2728
Received: 21/03/2021
Respondent: Anne Crossley
*Persistently taking away greenbelt land rather than reclaiming brownfield sites.*Site entry point off the very busy main village access road defies common sense * Proposed 'emergency access ' road would always be used as a normal in/out point.* Local primary school over subscribed, no space to extend and already mayhem is caused at every school opening/closing time because of traffic congestion and lack of parking * GP surgery only open part-time. *Village parking already a nightmare. *Congestion on Lidget and heavy lorries already cause problems on Station Road en route to Vale Mill,*Local secondary school has limited places. * Another 95 properties in the village of Oakworth, with approximately 2 vehicles per household and numerous extra children will seriously further damage the health of the village.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 3435
Received: 22/03/2021
Respondent: Mr Andrew Pickles
Additional Load on Infastructure.
Additional Traffic.
Only green space left between Keighley and Oakworth creating Urban sprawl
Will create flooding to existing residential properties.
Additional water and sewage
When was sewage treatment works last extended.
When was a new reservoir last built.
The Council should look more at redeveloping town centre empty shops and brown field sites.
Once green belt gone it's gone the Council sides with Developers and they always over develop sites and get away without paying 106 Agreements or undertaking full Planning Conditions
Sites in Bradford left empty and not developed why does the Council look at enforcing these developments to be undertaken.
Why is there now only one Planning Pannel and Keighley area no longer represented ?
The Council Planning never look at the Community feedback.
Once green belt gone it's gone and you create Urban sprawl linking towns and villages with no green spaces.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 4406
Received: 23/03/2021
Respondent: Heyla Arbabha
This will ruin the beautiful landscape, put pressure on the traffic which is already becoming congested and we do not have the capacity in the village for this. Shops and schools will not be able to cope and the environment will have an even greater strain. Oakworth is already over housed. You will ruin the natural beauty of Yorkshire that we are so proud of.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 4731
Received: 23/03/2021
Respondent: Mrs Jane Sutcliffe
Newly completed housing developments in Oakworth are already proving a strain on the village structure; roads are congested, utilities, health services and the village school are struggling under the pressure. The Co-op is the prominent shopping facility in the village and parking is a major issue there. Further developments will only escalate these issues, eat away at our green belt boundaries and decimate the future and pride of Oakworth and its community.
I therefore strongly disagree with your proposition of housing development on site OA1/H.
I strongly disagree with the proposed housing development OA2/H.
I strongly oppose any further housing development site being proposed on Green Belt land.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 6029
Received: 01/03/2021
Respondent: Deborah Holmes
Agent: Rose Consulting
1. The site would provide an opportunity for the creation of a strong, defensible Green Belt boundary.
2. In isolation, site OA1/H constitutes an irregular protrusion into the Green Belt.
3. The reasons for rejecting the site are not substantiated and appear contrived.
4. As cited, my client is aware of no SWF issues. SuDS would remedy any problems.
5. The site could deliver a major positive effect on the health SA Objective. Minor positive effects were predicted for nearly all other socio-economic SA Objectives.
6. A HRA would be undertaken to ensure there are no significant effects on these protected sites.
7. Development would cause only very minimal landscape impact.
8. Heritage has been cited as a reason for rejection but it appears no HIA was carried out.
9. The site is sustainable located adjacent to the settlement boundary within a reasonable proximity to services and facilities.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 10999
Received: 21/03/2021
Respondent: JO Steel Consulting
Objection to the rejection of site OA/016 Wide Lane.
The Heritage impact reason cannot be substantiated as the Assessment makes clear.
An approved access offers adequate visibility splays
Development can offer a significant public benefit a new length of footpath, something that the Highway Authority will never be able to deliver.
Majority of the site has been previously developed.
This is a discrete site in landscape terms.
Well established tree belts offer a new defensible boundary to the Green Belt.
“When defining Green Belt boundaries plans should:
f) define boundaries clearly , using physical features that are readily recognisable and
likely to be permanent .“
This site can be delivered now, the landowner has engaged in talks with a local builder.
The Council still cannot demonstrate five years supply of land with permission for housing as required by the NPPF 2019. ( 2.06 years was the latest figure published- Five year Housing Land Statement)
Comment
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 15522
Received: 19/03/2021
Respondent: Highways England (Yorkshire & North East Team)
It is not considered that locating development within the settlements within Oakworth, on their own, will have a severe impact on the capacity, operation and safety of the SRN, and this will be identified through the transport evidence base being prepared by the Council / the individual assessment of the transport implications of the sites by the sites’ promoters.
However, the quantum of sites forms part of a wider cumulative impact within Oakworth and the rest of the development aspirations within the Plan could severely impact the SRN, and this cumulative impact will need to be established by the Council and considered by
Highways England.
Comment
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 16273
Received: 24/03/2021
Respondent: Keighley Town Council
The local plan identifies a deficiency in allotments within Oakworth. As the allotment authority the town council is willing to work with Bradford MDC to identify suitable land within Oakworth for the provision of additional allotments in the village.
Object
Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021
Representation ID: 24665
Received: 23/03/2021
Respondent: Elizabeth Beckwith
•Oakworth already overdeveloped with recent developments at Bogthorn, Branshaw Park, Keighley Road and Holden Road.
•Oakworth Primary School is in the centre of the village and causes tremendous traffic congestion. Dockroyd Lane and Park Avenue are dangerous and the congestion spreads up Victoria Road/Street onto Maple Avenue. The proposed developments will make this situation worse.
•Both sites are Green Belt and building on this type of land eliminates the reasons people want to live in Oakworth. Close access to green spaces which people can easily walk to.
•Losing this agricultural land will mean we lose habitats for small animals and birds, and the corridors that allow other animals to move safely.
•Agriculture is a very important part of the Worth Valley. The economy would be totally different and the land would revert back to unmanaged areas damaging Oakworth and the rest of the valley reducing the attraction of the area to visitors.