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Hundreds object to homes plan for green belt land

Charles Heslett
BBC News, Yorkshire•@CharlesHeslett
Reporting fromBradford
BBC A road sign with Fleet Lane on it in black lettering in front of a drystone wall and green fields with yellow flowers in the distance. BBC
The fields will have to be changed from green belt to grey belt land for the housing scheme to go ahead

More than 900 people have lodged objections to plans to build hundreds of homes on green belt land in Bradford.

Barratt and David Wilson Homes have submitted a planning application to Bradford Council for 295 houses on green space off Fleet Lane in Queensbury.

The site lies within the green belt, but the application claims the land should be classed as grey belt as it "does not strongly contribute to green belt purposes".

The local authority is due to make a decision on the application in July.

Since opening for comments two weeks ago the application has received 919 objections along with 10 ing statements as of 21:00 BST on Wednesday.

Judy Wetherell, from the Fleet Lane 300 residents' group, said: "The main reasons for not wanting to build on this green belt land is because there are several sites around that are designated brown or grey belt land that could easily be developed instead.

"We appreciated that the council has to find more areas for housing development, but at the moment they are focussing on this area and they are totally saturating it."

A woman with grey, curly hair on the right and seven men and women in a group behind her all standing on a road.
The Fleet Lane 300 residents' group are among those against the development

The proposed 11-hectare space is the largest of nine housing sites proposed for Queensbury, extending from Fleet Lane to Old Guy Road.

The land is included in Bradford Council's draft local plan, which sets out locations for future housing.

Objectors have highlighted issues including traffic, the impact on nature and protected bird species and increased pressure on local schools and GP surgeries.

Gillian Wade, who has lived in the area for more than 40 years, said: "We've seen Queensbury getting bigger and bigger with various developments moving in.

"One of my main objections is that this is a lovely area for people to walk in and enjoy nature - if you take this away where are people going to go":[]}