Residents have spoken of their concerns at the number of new houses being built in Queensbury.

Granby Fields is one of the latest to be built in the former mill village which many people say is expanding far too fast.

Conservative ward councillor Andrew Smith said: "Most people in Queensbury are upset at the number of developments which must have added about 3,000 homes to the ward in the last nine years.

"One comment I hear is: 'We moved to Queensbury because it was a small village and now it is not'. The infrastructure, especially the roads, cannot take the traffic. The schools are overcrowded and there is a lack of youth provision."

Betty Patchett, of Queensbury History Society, said: "It isn't the village it was. We are all overcrowded now."

And she warned that traffic jams each morning and evening could only get worse when the new homes are occupied both in Queensbury and the 600-home development on the former Westwood Hospital site at nearby Clayton Heights.

There are housing developments under construction in Moor Close, Mountain and Fleet Lane.

But the building continues because of the huge demand to live there, say developers.

Builders working on the Granby Fields development are not working in stages across the site in the usual way but are working flat-out to finish the 62 homes.

The reason is the sales team are seeing great success with 17 properties sold in only four months, five of them before they were even built.

Rebecca Ratcliffe, in the sales office, said she was very busy with nearly every visitor reserving a property.

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