A demonstration has been organised by people opposed to the proposed development of housing on land at a Mirfield school.

Governors of Castle Hall School and Miller Homes have applied to Kirklees Council for planning permission for the 29-house development and a project to build a sports hall, all-weather pitch, tennis and netball court and better parking at the school.

The Save Mirfield group, who are campaigning against the plans, has arranged the demonstration and is asking the public to support them by assembling at the Gilder Hall at 2pm on June 10.

There will be a procession from the playing fields down to Towngate and around the school in Richard Thorpe Avenue.

Sonny the horse - the mascot of an earlier campaign who has been adopted by the group - is to be summoned from retirement to lead the procession along the public footpaths around the school grounds before demonstrators re-assemble in Towngate.

A member of the committee, who organised a petition against the development, said that if the strength of feeling against the housing plan that she had encountered on the doorstep was reflected in attendance at the demonstration, only those school governors who resided in Mirfield would be staying at home.