SIR – Re the T&A story ‘Green Fields Saved’ (November 11). Not in Bingley!

The Labour-run Council wants to concrete over at least 115 acres of Bingley countryside in its assault on the green belt to provide an additional 1,400 houses, while hundreds of acres of brownfield sites have remained undeveloped and many derelict for years, throughout the Bradford district.

Back in January 2012 in the T&A (January 26), the Labour portfolio holder for planning, Coun Val Slater was quoted over green belt development, “we’ll stand up to middle class”.

The proposal she and her Labour colleagues are pursuing will affect all residents of Bingley, not just one section, all those hardworking, and retired households who cherish Bingley and its villages because of their unique situation and setting.

The Labour strategy sees Bingley promoted to a principle town, and states, “Ilkley, Keighley and Bingley will be the main focus of housing development, employment, shopping, leisure, education, health and cultural activities and facilities”.

This is rich coming from the party that has closed our Council shop, cut our town centre manager in half, reduced our market to almost nothing, killed our very successful food festival, wants to close our swimming pool and shut the public loos.

Couns Heseltine, Pennington and Shaw, Bingley councillors, c/o City Hall, Bradford