£150m Bradford residential scheme gets green light

Bradford Metropolitan District Council has given the go-ahead to the construction of the £150m New Bolton Woods development.

The residential scheme, which covers more than 30 hectares of land on the outskirts of the city centre, will deliver 1000 homes, a new local centre comprising shopping facilities, a primary school and health centre as well as sports facilities and landscaped open space, over the next 10 years.

The first 50 homes have already been delivered and are fully occupied and earlier this year planning consent was granted for a new Aldi food store at the development.

Work to deliver the next residential phase of the new sustainable ‘urban village’ will start as soon as house-builder delivery partners are identified.

The granting of planning permission for the New Bolton Woods development is the culmination of three years of extensive urban design work and public consultation carried out by Canal Road Urban Village Ltd (CRUVL), a joint venture partnership created by regeneration specialists Urbo and Bradford Metropolitan District Council.

Urbo has collaborated with designers Urbed to produce the masterplan for New Bolton Woods.

Councillor Susan Hinchliffe commented: “I’m really pleased that the application has gone through. It’s a long term vision for the area which has an accompanying thought-through plan of what infrastructure the area will need in the future as well. We all now have to work hard to deliver that vision so that local people realise the benefits of the regeneration as soon as possible.”

Peter Swallow, a Director of Urbo and CRUVL, said: “The granting of planning permission is a major milestone in the delivery of the residential phase of New Bolton Woods. We are now in a position to start talking to housebuilders and identify the right partners to deliver the scheme. We anticipate great demand given the excellent location of the development, its proximity to public transport and the demand for private housing in the area.”

Manchester-based HOW Planning advised throughout, prepared the environmental statement and submitted the planning application on behalf of the regeneration partnership.

Jon Suckley, Partner at HOW Planning, added: “Approval of these plans will enable Urbo Regeneration to bring forward what is a hugely exciting development and a fantastic prospect for Bradford. It will not only provide new housing, community facilities and a new local centre but it will create a thriving new district for the city.”

With Bradford’s economy forecast to grow to more than £9bn by 2016, making the district the third largest in Yorkshire and Humber, the New Bolton Woods development will be an important contributor in providing new homes for employees of major companies choosing to invest in the city.

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