Kathryn Foster stands at the site near Town Head, Silsden, where she fears a housing development is planned (10308014)
PLANS TO build 62 houses on the edge of Silsden have prompted renewed calls for a bypass and replacement school.
The proposals for a new estate off Bolton Road, on the Addingham side of Silsden, have already attracted several objections. Silsden town Mayor Chris Atkinson has demanded planning permission is not given until a long-awaited bypass is built. to take traffic away from the town centre He and fellow town councillors have voted to oppose the plan on several grounds, particularly the lack of infrastructure in Silsden to cope with so many new houses.
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