Bradford District Development Frameworks and Related Services

The Council wishes to appoint appropriately skilled and experienced consultants to produce: • Lot 1: Part A - Bradford Sustainable City Development Framework together with Part B - Bradford Southern Gateway Masterplan and Part C - Holme Wood Urban Design Framework • Lot 2: Town Centric Development Framework for Keighley constituency, to include Keighley and Ilkley • Lot 3: Town Centric Development Framework for Shipley constituency, to include Bingley. The Scope of work/schedule in Section 4 sets out what is considered to be the core components of the Development Frameworks, although the Council is open to suggestions on alternative clustering of content and approaches. The geography for the lots is based upon constituency boundaries rather than Local Plan spatial planning boundaries, although there is a degree of cross-over between the two. The city commission (Lot 1) excludes the geographical area of Shipley and Baildon (both part of the regional city for panning purposes), although it is expected that there will be a strong crossover and connection between the development framework areas. Lot 1 combines a development framework for the city (with Bradford parliamentary constituencies) together with an important new masterplan for Bradford Southern Gateway and an urban design framework with related services for Holme Wood. Lots 2 and 3 are concerned with developing town-centric development frameworks for two very varied parts of the District. The Keighley constituency includes the towns of Keighley and Ilkley with significantly different characters and opportunities, while Lot 3 includes Bingley and Shipley with similarly strong local features and growth propositions. Depending upon the outcome of the tendering exercise there will be a need to work with other consultancy teams very closely on connections and critical content issues across development frameworks.