Bradford Council is to reveal proposals for an alternative site for a controversial skateboard park in Cottingley.

The move follows suggestions by residents who don't want the park developed at the recreation ground near their homes.

They sent protest letters to the Council's chief executive Ian Stewart opposing the original plans for the park and multi-use games area on Cottingley recreation ground near Fairy Dell.

The residents, who formed the Recreation Field Action Group, claim their quality of life would be affected. They sent a list of four areas in Cottingley they claimed would be better locations.

A Bradford Council representative will reveal the alternative proposal at a meeting of the Cottingley Neighbourhood Forum tomorrow. A Bradford Council spokesman said: "We have been looking at alternative sites in the area, including the playing fields of the former Cottingley Manor School, adjacent to Cannon's Health Club. The various options will be discussed with residents at Cottingley Neighbourhood Forum."

A group of youngsters submitted the application for a skateboard park and games area on the recreation ground but in December, Shipley's planning panel ruled that it could not consider the plan because the land belonged to the Council and permission for games use was not required.

The panel said any decision would be made instead by the Council's recreation department.

Recreation Field Action Group spokesman Stuart Chadwick said the group was delighted that an alternative site was being considered.

"We are not against a multi-use games area but are against its present planned location," he said. "We want to make sure that children have this facility in the village and that it's available to as many youngsters as possible.

Mr Chadwick said the Fairy Dell scheme would mean loss of green space, vandalism, noise problems, and a drop in house prices.

But Howard Clough, chairman of Cottingley Community Association, said the youngsters would fight to prevent the planned location being moved.

He said that if built, the £80,000 Fairy Dell site would be 50 metres from the nearest home and would be funded by the developers of new houses in Cottingley Moor Road and by Bradford Council.

The neighbourhood forum meets tomorrow at 7.30pm at St Michael's Church hall.