The Town Council’s community consultations are now underway, and we would like to encourage as many people as possible to have their say on a variety of important issues for Bingley.
Our Neighbourhood Plan Working Group has produced a draft plan, which requires your feedback before it can go to the next stage. We also want to know what you think Council priorities should be for the three-year period from April 2020 and get your suggestions on what we can spend our Community Infrastructural Levy funds on.
The consultations run until Wednesday 25 September and you can talk to Councillors and members of the Neighbourhood Plan Working Group at the following events:
- Saturday 07/09/19 – Bingley Market and Bingley Arts Centre, 9am-1pm
- Monday 09/09/19 – Eldwick Church, café area, 2pm-4pm
- Thursday 12/09/19 – Crossflatts Community Centre (COPWA), 5.30pm-7.30pm
- Monday 16/09/19 – Bingley Methodist Church 1.30pm-3.30pm
- Tuesday 17/09/19 – St Wilfrid’s, Gilstead, 7pm-9pm
- Friday 20/09/19 – Cottingley Community Centre, 10am-12pm
- Wednesday 25/09/18 – Bingley Business Expo, Bingley Arts Centre, 10am-3.30pm
A paper questionnaire will be available at these events or from the Town Clerk.
You can also make your views known via an online questionnaire, available at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BTCCommunityConsultation
Neighbourhood Plan
This is a document that creates policies that will influence building and development in the Bingley Town Council area until 2030. It will also entitle Bingley to receive a greater proportion of Community Infrastructure Levy monies.
Priorities
To help the Town Council set its agenda for 2020 to 2023, we would like residents to tell us what they think the most important areas of work or project/s are and to give us any suggestions as to what the Council could also consider achieving.
Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)
CIL is a charge paid by developers to Bradford Metropolitan District Council. As Bingley has a Town Council it receives 15% of any CIL paid on development in the parish. When Bingley has a Neighbourhood Plan, the town will receive 25% of any CIL. CIL can be used to fund a very broad range of facilities such as transport initiatives, play areas, parks and green spaces, cultural and sports facilities, healthcare facilities, academies and free schools, district heating schemes and police stations and other community safety facilities.
Will the public toilets be open 24/7 or is there a time lock system restricting opening hours?
Hi Fiona,
No decision has been made yet about the opening hours of the toilets. This will be decided by the council in due course. Please do feedback your thoughts through the current consultation.
Kind regards,
Laura
(Administrative Officer to Bingley Town Council)
Is there any posibility or rationalising parking on the lower to middle sections of Park Road, and the adjoining streets? As a business owner there, potential customers often complain over the lack of short term parking, which dissuades them from visiting the services and retail outlets there. At the same time local residents are concerned over commuter parking on the various unadopted roads, and try to protect their own access using ‘private, no-parking’ signs’. Both the signs and the full day parkers further restrict the opportunity for potential customers to park. Is there any possibilitly of providing further 30, 60 or two hour spaces to help out businesses in the vicinity?
I notice that Bradford Council are intending to bring in parking restrictions on Beckfoot Lane. This seems a shame as local people like to park along Beckfoot Lane and go for a walk along the golf course or the park. Does anyone know why they are trying to implement this?