SIR – The latest planning application for the Council's industrial estate at Buck Lane has just been submitted. Unfortunately, and despite all the assurances, it continues with the depressing precedents set by the first occupant.
This time it’s a Guiseley-based metal-working and distribution business that is moving into one of a pair of bent-aluminium sheds that only a Council architect could describe as ‘beautiful’.
The company brings 25 pre-existing jobs – not the 75 the Council promised for this part of the site.
There will only be a fraction of the 723 brand new jobs, the firms aren’t high-tech, and the buildings certainly aren’t landmarks.
With so much pressure on our remaining greenspaces, it remains grotesque that City Hall should have purchased 15 acres of agricultural land for an industrial estate that could have gone on any one of the local brownfields.
This complete failure of strategy, stewardship and vision cannot promote confidence in City Hall's Local Plan and Core Strategy.
Edmund Butterworth, St James’ Road, Shipley
A spokesman for Bradford Council said; “It would not be appropriate to discuss planning applications before a decision is made which takes in all the relevant issues surrounding the application.”
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