SECTION 106 funding is a small price to pay for developers.
It is only fair and proper that companies building often-sizeable housing schemes – considering the extra pressure being placed on infrastructure – should contribute to improvements within the community.
In the case of Occupation Lane, this is a hugely controversial scheme on a greenfield site.
Local residents campaigned against it and Bradford councillors threw it out, only for a Government inspector to overturn that decision.
For the developer now to wriggle out of paying the planned Section 106 funds is simply rubbing salt in the wounds.
The least it can do is honour the original agreement.
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