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BARDSEY VILLAGE UNDER THREAT
Please act immediately if you believe in preserving the character of our beautiful village  Dear fellow resident When fighting the Bramham Estate application, it was recognised that threats to our Neighbourhood Plan would never go away. A current application (referenced below), if approved, would destroy a number of the key principles of the Plan. Application […]
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BAG WINS THE DAY
SUCCESS! Our Greenbelt is saved, well done to the BAG Team!
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The Day of Reckoning – The People Say No To Bramham Estates
The Day of Reckoning The People Say No To Bramham Estates Support our village as it faces the final hurdle in its battle to stop Bramham Estate destroying Bardsey’s precious Green Belt. The Estate’s planning application is to be decided at a public meeting of the Planning Panel on 26th April at Leeds Civic Hall at 1.00. We need your presence […]
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Application Recommended For Refusal!
Dear All Great News – We have just spoken to Adam Ward, and he tells me the following: Adam Ward, the case officer, has told the applicants that officers would be recommending refusal of the application. This is based on the green belt policy and harm outweighing the benefit from restoring historic assets, and also on […]
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PUBLIC MEETING MON 13TH NOV 7.30pm
MEETING AT BARDSEY VILLAGE HALL ON MON 13TH NOV AT 7.30PM… UPDATE ON THE THREAT TO THE GREEN BELT AND WHY DEMOCRACY IS FAILING US Bramham Estate are trying to develop the greenbelt field on the A58 by claiming VERY SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES. They are REFUSING TO DISCLOSE THE FULL FINANCIAL FACTS Leeds City Council is […]
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BAG Latest Update Oct 2017
It is now 8 months since Savills submitted a formal planning application on behalf of Bramham Park Estate to build up to 140 houses on 14 hectares of agricultural land in the green belt, which the Estate owns in the village of Bardsey. A separate company, Sandby(Bardsey) Ltd is promoting and paying for the application […]
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Bardsey Greenbelt Threat Worsens
Last October Bramham Estate revealed its plans to destroy the greenbelt on land north of the old village. Now another landowner wants to make huge profits by developing greenbelt farmland for housing. The site is the land to the west of Wetherby Road, south of Bardsey village between Church Lane and the Waysides. On behalf […]
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BAG Latest Update
In May BAG and its planning consultant Allen Creedy met with the Leeds City Council planning officer, Adam Ward, to discuss our objection to the application, and to find out more about what the next steps are. Adam explained that he and his colleagues are still working on the technical issues that they have […]
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Bardsey Under Attack Again
From: James Watson Subject: Destruction of habitat Message Body: On Linden Close Bardsey Ls17 9ah lies a non accessible piece of land that had until Saturday morning a large variety of trees. This morning a team of men felled all the trees causing much distress to the residents of surrounding properties. These trees were home […]