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

Object

Representation ID: 19825

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: WSP UK Ltd

It is requested that Strategic Policies SP5 (Green Belt), SP15 (Creating Healthy Places) and the relevant supporting text and evidence base documents (eg The Green Belt Review) acknowledge the ‘exceptional circumstances’ to release some land from the Green Belt to facilitate the hospital’s operations. This will be necessary to comply with paragraph 136 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

Object

Representation ID: 19826

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: WSP UK Ltd

It is requested that Strategic Policies SP5 (Green Belt), SP15 (Creating Healthy Places) and the relevant supporting text and evidence base documents (eg The Green Belt Review) acknowledge the ‘exceptional circumstances’ to release some land from the Green Belt to facilitate the hospital’s operations. This will be necessary to comply with paragraph 136 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

Object

Representation ID: 19827

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: WSP UK Ltd

It is requested that the areas designated for Amenity Space and Green Infrastructure on the southern part of the hospital site are omitted. If a second access / egress point is proposed, the Trust would not want these designations preventing the highway improvements progressing.

Support

Representation ID: 19828

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: WSP UK Ltd

The Trust welcomes the draft plan’s acknowledgement at paragraph’s 5.14.38 – 5.14.39 of the structural issues with the hospital and the general aim to develop a new hospital. The Trust welcomes the support for the potential redevelopment of the hospital in the Local Area Strategy and Plan for Steeton with Eastburn.

Object

Representation ID: 19829

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: WSP UK Ltd

Consultation Question 14 regarding the Steeton with Eastburn Local Area Strategy, we request the plan is amended to include a specific policy relating to the hospital. This would secure in principle support for certain key development parameters relating to the redevelopment of the hospital and also its expansion and improvement of facilities over the plan period to 2038.

We also request certain facts and figures about the hospital’s operation in the draft plan are updated.

It is also requested that paragraph 5.14.38 is amended to state that The Trust employs over 3,500 permanent staff and has over 350 volunteers.

Object

Representation ID: 19830

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Agent: WSP UK Ltd

The addition of a site-specific policy in Bradford’s emerging Local Plan would demonstrate strategic planning for the vital development and infrastructure required by the hospital in compliance with national policy.

The plan will be in place until 2038, therefore it is imperative that a policy relating to the hospital is sufficiently flexible to accommodate a range of scenarios on the site, enabling the Trust to optimise the site’s potential and adequately provide for current and future care needs.

As such, we propose a site-specific policy (ie ‘ST6/HOSP’)· The future redevelopment for new hospital buildings and infrastructure;
· An increase in building heights to create views over the countryside, to improve patient wellbeing and also consolidate facilities and services;
· Provision of a new access / egress from Skipton Road to create a one-way system which would ease congestion at the existing junction;
· Expansion of the hospital facilities and infrastructure northwards by amending the Green Belt and Settlement Boundaries (please see site location plan);
· Provision of new landscaping buffer along the northern site boundary.