This 11 acre site is located on the edge of Sandy Lane, a village within the Bradford Council area of Yorkshire.
Located in the green belt - and therefore afforded the highest degree of protection from development that the planning system can offer - the site will be promoted through the planning system with the aim of securing an allocation for residential development in the council’s new development plan.
Progress with Bradford's new local plan has - to say the least - been tortuous. A new Core Strategy - which set out development targets for the borough - was adopted in 2017. That should have been followed by a second document confirming which sites that development should take place on. However, the council instead opted to review the Core Strategy in order to review - and significantly reduce - the housing target.
Although a formal consultation on that revision took place, the council have now abandoned that process. Instead they have opted to prepare a new Local Plan containing both development targets and site allocations. A first draft of that plan was published for consultation in January 2021.
During that time, we have been pushing the site's development potential with the council. This included the preparation of a Development Statement which summarised the various technical reports we commissioned about the site, covering issues such as transport, drainage, accessibility, ecology and heritage. The Statement also included an illustrative masterplan showing one way in which the site could be developed, whilst taking into account the various development constraints (including the site's slope).
A planning application can't be submitted until the site is formally removed from the green belt, which isn't likely to be until 2023 at the earliest.
This 11 acre site is located on the edge of Sandy Lane, a village within the Bradford Council area of Yorkshire.
Located in the green belt - and therefore afforded the highest degree of protection from development that the planning system can offer - the site will be promoted through the planning system with the aim of securing an allocation for residential development in the council’s new development plan.
Progress with Bradford's new local plan has - to say the least - been tortuous. A new Core Strategy - which set out development targets for the borough - was adopted in 2017. That should have been followed by a second document confirming which sites that development should take place on. However, the council instead opted to review the Core Strategy in order to review - and significantly reduce - the housing target.
Although a formal consultation on that revision took place, the council have now abandoned that process. Instead they have opted to prepare a new Local Plan containing both development targets and site allocations. A first draft of that plan was published for consultation in January 2021.
During that time, we have been pushing the site's development potential with the council. This included the preparation of a Development Statement which summarised the various technical reports we commissioned about the site, covering issues such as transport, drainage, accessibility, ecology and heritage. The Statement also included an illustrative masterplan showing one way in which the site could be developed, whilst taking into account the various development constraints (including the site's slope).
A planning application can't be submitted until the site is formally removed from the green belt, which isn't likely to be until 2023 at the earliest.
This 11 acre site is located on the edge of Sandy Lane, a village within the Bradford Council area of Yorkshire.
Located in the green belt - and therefore afforded the highest degree of protection from development that the planning system can offer - the site will be promoted through the planning system with the aim of securing an allocation for residential development in the council’s new development plan.
Progress with Bradford's new local plan has - to say the least - been tortuous. A new Core Strategy - which set out development targets for the borough - was adopted in 2017. That should have been followed by a second document confirming which sites that development should take place on. However, the council instead opted to review the Core Strategy in order to review - and significantly reduce - the housing target.
Although a formal consultation on that revision took place, the council have now abandoned that process. Instead they have opted to prepare a new Local Plan containing both development targets and site allocations. A first draft of that plan was published for consultation in January 2021.
During that time, we have been pushing the site's development potential with the council. This included the preparation of a Development Statement which summarised the various technical reports we commissioned about the site, covering issues such as transport, drainage, accessibility, ecology and heritage. The Statement also included an illustrative masterplan showing one way in which the site could be developed, whilst taking into account the various development constraints (including the site's slope).
A planning application can't be submitted until the site is formally removed from the green belt, which isn't likely to be until 2023 at the earliest.
