A DATE has been set for an Ilkley resident to appeal against planners who turned down his scheme to build a detached house in the grounds of his own home.

Jim Boddy, of Homewood, Curly Hill, Middleton, will tell a Department of the Environment planning inspector that he should be allowed to build the house.

Bradford planners turned down the application on the grounds that the development would be out of keeping with the spacious character of the surrounding area.

They also feared that trees would be damaged if the development went ahead and that the proposed entrance to the property could increase traffic dangers in the area.

The appeal will take place on February 19, 2002, at Ilkley Town Hall, beginning at 9am.

Last year Mr Boddy's application to construct two houses at the same plot of land was turned down after a public appeal hearing.

During the hearing, Mr Boddy's planning consultant, Andrew Rollinson, caused a few raised eyebrows when he described the plot of land in Ilkley's exclusive residential area as a 'brownfield' site.

The description, usually applied to derelict former industrial sites, was technically applicable, according to Mr Rollinson, because there had been previous development on it.

But residents of Curly Hill, where houses cost anywhere between £300,000 and more than £1 million, were not amused by the description.