Residents say they are concerned about a lack of school places after plans for 25 homes were formally submitted.
Last year, social housing landlord Incommunities demolished 30 homes, a warden’s lodge and communal area at Dale Court, Fieldway, in Ilkley, which were deemed unfit for purpose and not worth renovating for sheltered accommodation.
In their place, they want to build 25 three-bedroom family houses, with five for sale as affordable homes, and have submitted plans to Bradford Council.
But residents living nearby have raised concerns about a lack of school places in Ilkley and believe the new homes would add to the problem currently faced by schools in the town.
Amanda Lambert, of Leeds Road, said: “I feel building another housing plot will put pressure on the local schools, which are already oversubscribed.
“The proposed houses are family homes therefore a two children per house average will push school intakes into even more difficulties.”
Marieke Keonhorst, of Colbert Avenue, said she questioned “the need for housing in the area”.
However, Bradford-based Incommunities, which is the district’s largest social landlord, said the consultation also revealed most people liked the look and the layout of its proposals.
Nina Mewse, a senior research and development officer with the Council’s department of children’s services, has requested Incommunities pay £42,928 to cover primary provision and £40,080 for secondary places – a total of £83,080 – in the area should the scheme go ahead.
Bosses at the company are hoping to have the homes built by March 2013, to meet a deadline set in relation to the funding it has secured but it has put no figure on the overall cost of the project.
Vulnerable and elderly tenants were moved out of Dale Court in May 2010, and into more suitable homes in the area when plans to knock down the three blocks of ten flats were revealed.
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