On 7^th April there’s going to be an opportunity for people to drop into the Arts Centre in Bingley to have a look at the plans for this controversial development.  The developers have submitted plans for 475 dwellings (houses and flats) on this site and there has been a big campaign against it, led by the Greenhill Action Group (www.greenhill-action-group.co.uk) 

The event will run between 10 and 12 noon, followed by an unrelated “Police and Community Together” meeting for an hour at 12 noon, where the police come along and speak to residents about what action they are taking in the area. 

If you can’t make the meeting then you can either go to Shipley Town Hall to view the plans or have a look at them online where you can also leave comments.  Follow the link here.

British Waterways are inviting local people to join them for a Towpath Tidy on 16th March.  Meeting at 10am near the Five Rise Locks, they will be litter picking and tidying the path towards Wagon Lane, finishing between 12 and 1pm.  All volunteers are welcome!

Bradford & Bingley are selling off the building in the town centre however it looks unlikely that it will be able to be used for a supermarket.  Tesco have looked at the site and judged it too small for their purposes. 

We understand that the site is likely to be flattened on sale however Parliamentary Candidate, Susan Hinchcliffe, expressed her concern that the site might be left as a hole, “What I don’t want to see is for us in Bingley to have our very own hole, just like the one in the centre of Bradford.”

At a Neighbourhood Forum meeting recently, residents heard that the earliest that the planning application would be later in March.

Tesco are asking for permission to build a supermarket on the old auction mart site opposite Bingley Grammar School which at the moment is used as a site for car boot sales.