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

Support

Representation ID: 28125

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

The principal of an urban extension east of Holme Wood is well established, and the continued reference to Holme Wood as a key regeneration area in Draft Policy SP2: Spatial Priorities, is welcomed. This reinforces the importance of the delivery of the urban extension at Holme Wood, given the clear benefits the delivery of an urban extension will have on the regeneration of Holme Wood.

Support

Representation ID: 28126

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

It is considered there are exceptional circumstances to justify the removal of green belt land on the eastern urban edge of Holme Wood, to facilitate the delivery of an urban extension, which will include a mix of residential, commercial and green infrastructure and associated new road infrastructure.

Support

Representation ID: 28127

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

HLM agree with the Council that there is an acute and intense need for employment land and there is a shortage of suitable sites such that exceptional circumstances exist for the release of sites from the Green Belt.

HLM agree with the Council that the demand for new employment land is on the southern edge of the City with strong links to the motorway network. Site SE37/E is well located to serve the strategic road network, it being well located for access to the M62 and M621. The scale of this employment area is appropriate and suitable for a variety of uses.

Object

Representation ID: 28128

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

Housing Need and Requirement

Johnson Mowat have particular concerns with the Draft Plan’s strategic approach to the overall housing requirement and the Council’s chosen approach of dismissing the Government requirement of a 35% uplift to the housing requirement (Policy SP8).

It is considered at the very least, the 35% uplift as required by the Government should be applied to the overall housing requirement, resulting in an annual requirement of 2,300 dwellings per annum, rather than the Council’s preferred approach of 1,704 dwellings per annum.

On this basis, the Draft Local Plan is over 10,000 dwellings short in its land provision, against the identified need (2,300 – 1,704 x 18 year plan period = 10,728).

Object

Representation ID: 28129

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

Housing Distribution - Bradford SE

The Draft Local Plan significantly increases the urban focus by directing more development to Bradford City Centre.

The Council have applied an urban focus uplift in terms of the distribution of development but without applying an uplift to the overall requirement. This results in a whole shift away from the distribution in the adopted Core Strategy, with disproportionate reductions to the majority of sustainable settlements and sub areas in the District, including South East Bradford.

The South East Bradford Area has seen significant reductions in the proportion of housing, with the Adopted Core Strategy requiring 6,000 dwellings, which was reduced to 3,100 in the Core Strategy Partial Review and now proposes a further reduction to 2,200 dwellings in the Draft Local Plan. This falls significantly short of the baseline population proportionate distribution which is 3,229 (SP8 Technical Paper).

It is important that the Holme Wood Urban Extension is not jeopardised by an inflexible and disproportionately reduced housing requirement in the Bradford South East Sub Area.

Comment

Representation ID: 28132

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

It is requested that future iterations of the Local Plan combine the residential element of the urban extension as a single allocation.

There is no known reason why the individual parcels of SE19/H, SE46/H, SE47/H and SE48/H cannot be combined to form a logical residential allocation alongside the proposed employment allocation SE37/E within the overall Holme Wood South Urban Extension.

Support

Representation ID: 28133

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

HLM supports the inclusion of Sites SE19/H, SE46/H, SE47/H, SE48/H and SE37/E. Collectively, the indicative yield from these sites in the Draft Local Plan is 1,158 dwellings and 9.06 ha of Employment land.

Comment

Representation ID: 28134

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

While the allocation of the site for employment use is supported it should be noted that the HLM Masterplan proposes an alternative boundary to SE37/E (which in turn effects the SE47/H and SE48/H boundaries), to align the employment site with the proposed access road off the existing roundabout off Westgate Hill Street A650 / B6135 / Cross Lane. This is considered a more logical alternative and sustainable approach.

This marginally increases the size of SE37/E (and reduces SE47/H and SE48/H).

Support

Representation ID: 28135

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

HLM supports the inclusion of Sites SE19/H, SE46/H, SE47/H, SE48/H and SE37/E

The sites are deliverable, with a willing land promoter on board to ensure collectively the sites come forward as a comprehensive development.

Appendix 1 provides an Opportunities and Constraints Plan, which has informed the preparation of an illustrative Masterplan (Appendix 2). This together with the Transport and Access Appraisal at Appendix 4 illustrates how the sites can deliver a comprehensive urban extension, which has been designed to take account of the existing topography, incorporates appropriate access points, including a roundabout within the site to allow access to the proposed employment allocation to the east (SE37/E).

Whilst the Holme Wood South Urban Extension is not reliant on the delivery of the South East Bradford Access Road, the Urban Extension will contribute to the facilitation of the potential new strategic highway as a long-term aspiration.

HLM are confident that the development considerations contained in the individual Site Details in the Draft Local Plan are achievable. The initial Masterplan work provides confidence that Holme Wood South is capable of delivering a well-designed urban extension.

Comment

Representation ID: 28138

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Hallam Land Management

Agent: Johnson Mowat

It is proposed to increase north eastern extent of SE47/H to provide parcel of residential development in the north western corner of the Holme Wood South urban extension, west of the link road.

This slight tweak to the land designations within the overall site is considered a logical and sustainable alternative, which affects the internal boundaries of sites SE37/E, SE47/H and SE48/H.

This proposes an appropriate employment allocation east of the link road, and a logical mixed use opportunity immediately adjacent to the existing roundabout at the entrance point into the urban extension.