Under draft plans setting out a district-wide blueprint until 2028, a total of 4,000 new homes will be needed in the north-west of Bradford.

Public consultation is continuing over Bradford Council’s Local Development Framework core strategy, which sets out proposals of where up to 45,500 homes could be built across the district over the next 15 years.

As the preparation of the key planning document continues, land will be allocated setting out the exact location of where these homes can be built. For the moment, a strategic assessment of available land in the north west area of the city identifies a total of 57 sites as having the potential for house building. However it is 39 of these plots that planners believe could be delivered within the 17-year timeframe of the assessment. At 21, more than half of these are classed as greenfield sites, and a further 16 are previously developed land – or brownfield.

In total Council planners believe the 121 hectares of land could yield 3,032 homes, which is less than the 4,000 target in the draft LDF. Many of the sites are suitable for development now, while others are potentially suitable given policy constraints, such as being in the green belt.

A large amount of land has been put forward for consideration to the west which is currently protected as green belt land but could provide longer-term development opportunities.

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