The Bradford District is a varied and exciting place to live and work.  We want to ensure that our strategic

planning polices remain fit for purpose and will support sustainable development now and into the future. 

To obtain this objective, the Council is starting work and consultation on the partial review of its adopted

Core Strategy.  

 

The Core Strategy forms an essential part of the Local Plan for Bradford setting out our strategic housing,

employment, transport, retail, leisure and environmental policy requirements.   Importantly the Core

Strategy also provides  policy direction for the broad location, scale and distribution of site allocations for

such things as housing and employment. 

 

We also use the Core Strategy policies to help determine planning applications and inform key

infrastructure and investment priorities.

Shaping Our Future Policies

Bradford Core Strategy

Partial Review

Why are we reviewing? The review has been stimulatedfollowing recent updates to nationalplanning policy, particularly in relation tocalculating housing requirements andgreen belt protection plus local policychanges including the adoption of a neweconomic strategy for the district and afocus upon major transport projects,including Northern Powerhouse Rail.    

As the Core Strategy is such animportant document it is vital that theCouncil reviews it and makes sure it isrelevant and up to date for our local area. 

The first stage of consultation involvesestablishing the range of existingadopted core strategy policies which mayrequire reviewing. The Council welcomesfeedback on our initial directions.  Thisconsultation is an early opportunity tohelp shape Bradford’s planning policesfor the future.

Consultation Details This is a statutory consultation starting Friday 11th January 2019and ending on Friday 22nd February 2019 at 5pm.  Please complete our easy and quick online survey at:www.bradford.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-policy/core-strategy-dpd/ Completed electronic comments forms can also be downloadedfrom our website and e-mailed to:planning.policy@bradford.gov.uk or printed and posted to: Core Strategy Partial Review, Local Plans Team, City of BradfordMetropolitan District Council, 4th Floor Britannia House,Broadway, Bradford, BD1 1HX. For further information on this consultation please contact theLocal Plan Team on (01274) 433679.   

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The Core Strategy plan period – national policy indicates that theplan should look ahead over a 15-year period. The current CoreStrategy plan runs until 2030. It is proposed that the new CoreStrategy plan period should be extended from 2030 to 2035.  

Strategic housing policies - including setting a new housingrequirement (including specialist accommodation needs), thedistribution and phasing of housing across the district,reassessing the levels of affordable housing need and providingmore detail on housing quality, including potentially introducingoptional housing standards, and considering whether allbrownfield and non-green belt land options have been fully andextensively evaluated, when it comes to accommodatingsustainable development.  

Economic growth – reassessing employment needs and landrequirements plus reviewing retail and leisure needs. The councilwants to enable a strong and vibrant economy to flourish andbusinesses need new land and premises to support jobs. We needto ensure that the right mix of land is available, in the rightlocations for a wide range of different businesses. 

Green Belt - re-assessing the case for exceptional circumstancesand identifying the need for any changes to Green Beltboundaries. National planning policy places great importance toGreen Belts. Council’s need to demonstrate exceptionalcircumstances for changes to Green Belt through plan-making. Before concluding that exceptional circumstances exist to justifychanges to Green Belt boundaries, the Council should be able todemonstrate that it has examined fully all other reasonableoptions for meeting its identified need for development. 

Viability – ensuring that our delivery and viability policies alignwith national policy on addressing viability considerations at theplan-making stage. Viability assessment should not compromisesustainable development but should be used to ensure thatpolicies are realistic, and that the total cumulative cost of allrelevant policies will not undermine deliverability of the plan.

What are the main policy areasin the review?

Paper copies of the consultation documents are alsoavailable for inspection at:Britannia House,  Keighley Town Hall,Bradford City Library, Bradford Local Studies,Bingley Library, Ilkley Library,  Keighley Library andShipley Library.

How do I find out more? A number of public drop-in sessions have beenarranged to provide further information about thepartial review:   Monday 21st January:  Saltaire, Victoria Hall,Victoria Road, Shipley, BD18 3JS: 3:30pm-7:30pm  Thursday 24th January: Keighley, Central Hall, AliceStreet, Keighley, BD21 3JD:  3:30-7:30pm  Tuesday 29th January:  Ilkley, Clarke Foley Centre,Cunliffe Road, Ilkley, LS29 9DZ: 3:30pm-7:30pm  Thursday 31st January: Bradford City Hall,Centenary Square, Bradford BD1 1HY: 1-5pm 

 A number of pieces of technical evidence have been or are in

the process of being commissioned including a new Strategic

Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) and Local Housing

Needs Survey, evidence on employment, transport, retail and

leisure and other technical areas.  Technical work on the

evidence base is also been undertaken in house by the

Council, including Green Belt analysis and employment and

housing land assessments.

  

Updating our Evidence Base  

  

Key Consultation Papers 

  The main consultation report is the Core Strategy Partial

Review Scoping Report.  It is accompanied with a 

Sustainability Appraisal (SA) (including Strategic

Environmental Assessment (SEA) and several Scoping

Reports:

- Habitat Regulation Assessment (HRA)

- Equalities Impact Assessment (EqIA)

- Health Impact Assessment (HIA)