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

Object

Representation ID: 4436

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Bradford Shipley Travel Alliance

Include actions that will substantially contribute to tackling the climate emergency.
Include the Council and WYCA net-zero carbon policy and its implications for transport.
Consider the traffic reduction pathways to reach the WYCA targets already shown as minimums.
If it would be costly to continue with current schemes, this must be stated and explored for its implications.
Put the hierarchy of traffic in developments within the policy. The Plan must be very clear to its Councillors and residents the nature of any changes in law and national regulation that are required.
Each development should be car traffic-free by assumption, with great compensating penalties for developers who do not offer car traffic-free.
Every Housing and Economic development site must be considered as requiring to be car-traffic free.
No development should contribute to an increase car traffic. How will this be ensured through planning regulations?

Object

Representation ID: 4927

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Bradford Shipley Travel Alliance

There must be mention of what kinds of jobs contribute to reducing net carbon emissions best, and which do not, with measures to encourage investment in the former and not in the latter. This should be remedied in the next draft.

Object

Representation ID: 4932

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Bradford Shipley Travel Alliance

This response is from Bradford-Shipley Travel Alliance, in furtherance of the statement that its allied organisations support (www.bsta.org.uk), without distracting from any comments that any of those organisations may make.
The ‘reasonable alternatives’ to SP9 suggested in the draft Plan seem very much ‘weaker’ than the proposed SP9 itself. Instead, the proposal should be strengthened by alternatives that specify much more clearly how the aims will be achieved.
Within the draft Plan there are aspirations for traffic-free, parking-free developments. How will these be ensured? What restrictions and encouragement will investors be given to ensure that these aspirations will be kept? Whatever incentives and restriction there are must be precise and enforceable and referred to in SP9.
There should be pre-planning actions so that planning applications are already compliant with climate emergency policy when they are submitted.

Object

Representation ID: 5943

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Bradford Shipley Travel Alliance

This response is from Bradford-Shipley Travel Alliance, in furtherance of the statement that its allied organisations support (www.bsta.org.uk), without distracting from any comments that any of those organisations may make.
There seem to be major contradictions between this local area plan and the Strategic and Thematic Policies on Climate Change, and Transport.
The Shipley Eastern Relief Road does not need to be protected, as less traffic will mean that ‘in line’ adjustments to the existing junctions will be sufficient to provide relief.
The Plan’s strategic priorities should be defended against contrary measures in current plans, not tucked around them like fancy decoration around a poisoned chalice.
These two major housing developments must include the explicit consideration that they should be the council’s favoured level of zero traffic.
The planning of Canal Road Corridor as imaginative net-zero carbon emission developments would support local, regional and national policy on climate emergency.