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

Comment

Representation ID: 19923

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Climate Action Ilkley

Number of people: 7

1. All new housing should be mandated to be carbon-neutral, or even carbon positive (generating more renewable energy than they consume) as a condition of planning permission. For example, they should incorporate at minimum:
* A very high standard of insulation, such as Passivhaus.
* Heating and cooking systems that rely on electricity rather than fossil fuels.
* Renewable power generation, such as via rooftop solar PV, air or ground source heat pumps.
* Low energy, high efficiency appliances.

Comment

Representation ID: 19930

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Climate Action Ilkley

Number of people: 7

2. All developments should include a significant proportion of affordable housing and meet requirements for density to accommodate these. They should not have a high proportion of detached, expensive houses, which are not attainable by many of the people we need to ensure Ilkley continues to thrive, such as younger people and those working in the public sector and service industries.

Comment

Representation ID: 19931

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Climate Action Ilkley

Number of people: 7

2. All developments should include a significant proportion of affordable housing and meet requirements for density to accommodate these. They should not have a high proportion of detached, expensive houses, which are not attainable by many of the people we need to ensure Ilkley continues to thrive, such as younger people and those working in the public sector and service industries.

Comment

Representation ID: 19932

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Climate Action Ilkley

Number of people: 7

3. Space dedicated to car parking should be reduced as an acknowledgement that there are sustainable alternatives to every household owning one or more cars. For example, housing developments could include car clubs, lockable cycle shelters, communal electric cargo bike schemes, and so on. The current norm where every new house is built with provision for one or even more private cars is not sustainable.

Comment

Representation ID: 19933

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Climate Action Ilkley

Number of people: 7

4. New green infrastructure should be maximised, including the use of imaginative new initiatives, such as micro-forests (e.g. this project). Space that would otherwise have been used for cars can be used in such a way to mitigate against the climate change and the biodiversity crises. We’d also like to see easy, cheap but potentially significant measures such as gaps in fences for hedgehogs.

Comment

Representation ID: 19934

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Climate Action Ilkley

Number of people: 7

4. New green infrastructure should be maximised, including the use of imaginative new initiatives, such as micro-forests (e.g. this project). Space that would otherwise have been used for cars can be used in such a way to mitigate against the climate change and the biodiversity crises. We’d also like to see easy, cheap but potentially significant measures such as gaps in fences for hedgehogs.

Comment

Representation ID: 19935

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Climate Action Ilkley

Number of people: 7

5. Existing mature green infrastructure should always be retained, for example, areas of mature trees on designated development sites, such as the copse on the proposed housing development site IL1/H.

Comment

Representation ID: 19936

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Climate Action Ilkley

Number of people: 7

5. Existing mature green infrastructure should always be retained, for example, areas of mature trees on designated development sites, such as the copse on the proposed housing development site IL1/H.

Support

Representation ID: 19937

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Climate Action Ilkley

Number of people: 7

6. We support the inclusion in the plan of the Wharfedale Greenway, a long-overdue safe means of active transport between neighbouring communities, and suggest that work on this project is prioritised to allow its realisation early in the development of any site, i.e. as soon as practically possible, rather than risk its non-completion through delay.

Support

Representation ID: 19938

Received: 23/03/2021

Respondent: Climate Action Ilkley

Number of people: 7

6. We support the inclusion in the plan of the Wharfedale Greenway, a long-overdue safe means of active transport between neighbouring communities, and suggest that work on this project is prioritised to allow its realisation early in the development of any site, i.e. as soon as practically possible, rather than risk its non-completion through delay.