Hugely controversial plans to build 138 homes in Yorkshire have been approved despite hundreds of objections.
Persimmon Homes applied to build the new housing estate off Bolton Road, in Silsden, and on Thursday the proposals went before a Bradford Council planning meeting. Planning officers had recommended the development be approved – despite around 800 objections to the scheme, including one from Keighley MP Robbie Moore. The majority of the council’s regulatory and appeals committee voted to approve the plans after a meeting attended by a large number of the objectors.
She said: “The road network in Silsden is cramped, causing gridlock and pollution in the town. There is one classified road, the A6034 which passes through the middle of Silsden. “This road is a traffic ‘sewer’ carrying HGVs, buses and commuter traffic heading from Lancashire towards Leeds, from the South Pennines to Harrogate, local traffic connecting with Skipton, Ilkley and Keighley plus nearly all the local traffic within Silsden.
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