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- 15th July 2015 at 5:46 am #662
Did anyone go to the meeting last night ? We couldn’t make it but would be interested to hear from anyone who was there
New Homes in Silsden?
Bradford Council has identified a need for 1200 new homes to be built in Silsden by 2030.
You are invited to an Event at Silsden Methodist Church on Tues 14th July 4pm to 7pm to meet a development team and discuss this proposal. We would advise everyone to go to this event and discuss this issue, a website is available for you to see the planners point of view.
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- 18th July 2015 at 2:18 pm #717
Always scary when this comes up. Didn’t make it but wanted to. Anyone who was in Silsden in the early nineties will remember that the Silsden Bypass was given planning permission by the Government but it was said that money would never be available to build it. A very strange outcome, until a couple of years later when The Urban Development programme came into being and they decided that houses could be built on the land between the village and the proposed Bypass as it was now Brown Land! This is why I always think 1200 houses is scary.
- 20th July 2015 at 4:30 pm #781
1200? holy cow – will be like an estate?
- 20th July 2015 at 6:46 pm #801
Id buy a local business right now, 1200 homes could be another 4000 people in town, all needing more facilities and more Beer!
- 21st July 2015 at 4:06 pm #816
Last time they were gonna build was on the Cutside top side of the bridge. Thats probabley where they’ll carry on.
They need to look at a new main sewer first though if you ask me the present one which runs down the side of the railway is bursting at the seams, Literally. - 21st July 2015 at 5:03 pm #824
Yeah you’re right, when we get a heavy downpour it’s panic stations at the bottom of Howden road and the new metal flood barrier didn’t seem to do a reet lot when we get the hail stones.
- 21st July 2015 at 8:04 pm #825
That flood barrier isnt finished because they didnt have planning permission for it.
I wasn’t talking drains, I meant sewers. The big pipe by the railway carrier all the sewerage from Steeton, Eastburn, Crosshills Kildwick etc, down the valley to Keighley. It was built in Victorian times and back in the early nineties I walked its lenght with a local councillor and a protest group. It was lwaking at the seams then. Think of all the houses built since then and now they want to add sewerage from, as Buzzpost suggests, 4,000 more people. Your guess at the outcome is probabley the same as mine 🙂
- 27th July 2015 at 6:36 pm #1110
Silsden is an obvious choice for new home development. It is on the edge of West Yorkshire with good public transport links to Bradford and Leeds. Roads are not so good, at least once to the edge of Shipley. Why anyone would actually want to drive into Leeds down the Aire valley beats me. I did for a while, on two wheels and it was like riding past a car park most of the way.
Of course, new development needs up front infrastructure. If better access to the railway is not provided then it is pointless. Similarly a few more crossings of the canal. and naturally the supply of water and its removal with added waste needs to be suited to the number of people here.
Of course there should be a lot more industrial development and people encouraged to live nearer where they work. Then there would be less need to travel. In the ‘good old days’ people lived near their work. Commuting is a relatively new phenomena. A retreat from reliance on commuting would improve everyone’s life.
- 29th July 2015 at 4:59 pm #1133
Not against it. Its the way they go about it. Always underhanded and to hell with the fascilities and services.
- 27th August 2015 at 11:25 am #1330
I notice our local Councillor(Mr Mallinson) and supporter of housebuilding has up sticks from Silsden and moved to the other side of Bradford.Maybe to keep out of forthcoming housing proposal arguments, who knows.But neither Tory councillors representing us now reside in the local area.
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