Incommunities submits plan for 130 homes in Ravenscliffe

Social housing provider Incommunities has submitted a planning application for work to two plots of land in the Ravenscliffe area of the city.

If approved, one set of homes would be built on land to the east of Roundwood Glen and Ranelagh Avenue, near Fagley Beck, with the other development taking place on an area of green land off Norbury Road.

The application was submitted to Bradford Council this week.

The Shipley-based housing provider says the new homes “will harmoniously fit into the urban settlement” and argues the development would provide much-needed affordable housing for the city.

The outline planning application details how the housing will fit into the area, and says the development will “ensure that a high quality, well-balanced community is created, which promotes active movement and is well connected with existing development".

The application points out that both sites have previously been allocated for housing in Bradford Council development plans.

One of the sites the homes would be built on (Image: T&A)

Incommunities says that the new homes will link up to some existing footpaths to the east of the site, but that one existing footpath will need to be “blocked off” to make way for the housing.

The development will also involve improvements to Norbury Road, an unmade road that passes through one of the sites that will become the main access for some of the homes.

A “buffer zone” of 15 metres will be left between the new homes and a woodland area to the east of Ravenscliffe.

And the development will incorporate measures to boost biodiversity in the area with street trees and hedgerows – the plans claim.

The application adds: “The scheme will deliver economic, social, and environmental benefits whilst utilising the space to meet an identified housing need within the area and will deliver positive outcomes for the local area.

“Whilst there will be a requirement to remove existing trees on site to facilitate the delivery of the proposed scheme and some transient changes to the overall landscape to the area, this needs to be considered within the planning balance and any tensions from a policy perspective should be considered against the delivery of a significant number of homes and the provision of landscaping to be delivered.

“Ultimately, the scheme has sought to deliver a successful housing scheme on the allocated site.”

A decision on the application is expected in June.