Calderdale Housing Campaign

The Calderdale Housing Campaign was launched in July 2005 - with CSF as joint promoter - at a time when house prices in the district were continuing to increase.

Launch statement: "Over the last few months the gradual appreciation that Calderdale Council has already approved the district's entire allocation of housing planning permissions for the period through to 2016 - 12 years before it should have done - has started to send ripples of concern through a range of organisations and local groups. Equally worrying is the current scale of development, with large housing schemes being proposed in many parts of the district. Behind this lies a basic fear - has the Council lost control over housing supply in Calderdale?

As a result communities and individuals across Calderdale are getting increasingly concerned about the subject of housing. As the price of houses keeps on rising, where will first-time buyers or people wanting to both live and work locally, find a place to live? As more and more houses keep on being built, are green or precious sites now being faced by development that threatens to change the character of local communities? As more and more employment sites and former community facilities are converted to residential, where will the buildings for social activities or starter businesses be found? And how sustainable is all this development?"

In 2006 the issue of housing - numbers, development, affordability and sustainability - will continue to be an issue for debate as the draft Regional Spatial Strategy proposes still higher levels of housebuilding in Calderdale.

Download the Housing chapter of draft RSS (660 kB PDF).You can also comment online.

The closing date is 13th April 2006.