Draft Bradford District Local Plan - Preferred Options (Regulation 18) February 2021

Object

Representation ID: 5163

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

Baildon & Shipley FOE - BA/5H
1. Note NPPF requirements paragraphs 136 and 137
2. Contravenes a core principle of Bradford’s Sustainable Development Action Plan, ‘Living within environmental limits’.
3. Adverse impacts on a fragile habitat and biodiversity.
4. Unsuitable topology; poor drainage
5. A buffer zone to a stunning valley area which is highly valued by all who know it. This is also recognised as a great wildlife area and an area of special interest.
6. Street lighting up to the edge of the development would adversely affect the natural habitat on the green area, at the new boundary.
7. Severe traffic congestion on Langley Lane, especially at school run time, made even worse.
8. Any mitigation (including new public rights of way) would not compensate for the loss of this area.
9. Pressure on school places, especially Baildon CE Primary School which adjoins.

Object

Representation ID: 5184

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

Baildon & Shipley FOE – BA2/H
1. Note NPPF requirements paragraphs 136 and 137
2. Contravenes a core principle of Bradford’s Sustainable Development Action Plan, ‘Living within environmental limits’.
2. There will be knock-on effects of increase in traffic leading to further pressure on West Lane itself and neighbouring roads and the centre of Baildon, essentially creating further bottlenecks;
4. There are concerns about increased toxicity from traffic, increased danger to school children at Sandal Primary School, pressure on Sandal Primary School capacity, and the need to enlarge the school to absorb the potential increased intake. It is noted that a similar situation exists in respect of Salt School.
5. Essentially, the existing infrastructure in Baildon will struggle to cope with increased housing without addressing this issue.

Object

Representation ID: 5260

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

Baildon & Shipley FOE – SP1
1. Addressing the climate emergency must be paramount. All other objectives need to be secondary. More green space, maintaining biodiversity, cleaner air, better public health etc will follow on naturally if the climate emergency is paramount.
2. Sustainable development is required, including securing the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change. All planning strategies, and the decisions taken in support of them, must reflect the Council’s ambition to help businesses and communities build a zero-carbon future and prepare for the impacts of climate change. Accordingly, planning policies and all planning decisions must be in line with achieving net zero carbon by 2038.
3. Reduction in traffic levels (especially private cars) needs to happen quickly.
4. A need for ‘net gain’ at top level in the document, is vague, and needs to be tightened up properly with social, economic and environmental objectives.

Object

Representation ID: 5314

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

Baildon & Shipley FOE
There is considerable potential, particularly in the less urban/ more rural parts of the District, and the urban fringe, for food-growing, including community orchards.
Create new and improve existing open space, green areas, networks and corridors including the urban fringe ,to enhance biodiversity, food growing and recreation.

Object

Representation ID: 5322

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

Baildon & Shipley FOE – SP2
1. Paragraphs (2) and (8) are contradictory. Promotion of air travel is incompatible with a low-carbon future and need to minimise environmental threats.
2. Mitigation along the lines of “adaptation” and “building resilience” is nonsense in this context.
3. Concentrate on identifying more brownfield sites. Could be enabled by providing greater density of housing as suggested by our submissions under SP6, SP7 and SP8.

Object

Representation ID: 5904

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

Baildon & Shipley FOE – SP1
1. Addressing the climate emergency must be paramount. All other objectives need to be secondary. More green space, maintaining biodiversity, cleaner air, better public health etc will follow on naturally if the climate emergency is paramount.
2. Sustainable development is required, including securing the mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change. All planning strategies, and the decisions taken in support of them, must reflect the Council’s ambition to help businesses and communities build a zero-carbon future and prepare for the impacts of climate change. Accordingly, planning policies and all planning decisions must be in line with achieving net zero carbon by 2038.
3. Reduction in traffic levels (especially private cars) needs to happen quickly.
4. A need for ‘net gain’ at top level in the document, is vague, and needs to be tightened up properly with social, economic and environmental objectives.

Object

Representation ID: 5906

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

Baildon & Shipley FOE – SP2
1. Paragraphs (2) and (8) are contradictory. Promotion of air travel is incompatible with a low-carbon future and need to minimise environmental threats.
2. Mitigation along the lines of “adaptation” and “building resilience” is nonsense in this context.
3. Concentrate on identifying more brownfield sites. Could be enabled by providing greater density of housing as suggested by our submissions under SP6, SP7 and SP8.

Object

Representation ID: 5907

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

There is considerable potential, particularly in the less urban/ more rural parts of the District, and the urban fringe, for food-growing, including community orchards.
Create new and improve existing open space, green areas, networks and corridors including the urban fringe ,to enhance biodiversity, food growing and recreation.

Object

Representation ID: 5909

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

Baildon & Shipley – SP4
1. In order to address the climate emergency successfully, there is going to have to be a significant reduction in private car use.
2. This requires radical thinking and a different mindset.
3. All neighbourhoods should be planned to encourage walking, cycling and use of public transport as the preferred mode of transport, in preference to the private motor car.
4. Vauban (Freiburg, Germany) shows what can be achieved when pedestrians and cyclists are placed at the heart of neighbourhood planning.
5. Most everyday local facilities should be located within 15 minutes of any given home, by any means other than private car.

Object

Representation ID: 5910

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Baildon & Shipley Friends of the Earth

Baildon & Shipley FOE – SP5
1. See NPPF paragraphs 133-137
2. If the local plan is to demonstrate exceptional circumstances for Green Belt change, this must be set in the context of the need to address climate action as set out in SP1; and to achieve significant environmental net gains through development as required by NPPF, and the scale of car traffic reduction needed, as confirmed by the WYCA CERP report.
3. Maintenance of Green Belt will need no “mitigation measures”, but it would make sense to see what mitigation might apply in a certain case (such as providing additional green space nearby), and apply it anyway, for even more ‘net gain.’ See also FOE’s submission under EN1.