A pressure group in Greetland has spoken up about Calderdale’s housing plan, which they say will see 1,572 new homes being built in the Elland area. With 40% of those homes being built across Greetland, West Vale and Stainland.
Lyndsey Ashton, a driver for Greetland’s pressure group, said: “because we keep challenging the councillors they are trying to silence us.”
The group believes the homes should be built in another part of Calderdale.
Ashton said, “air pollution is worse in the Southeast of Calderdale it’s better and is improving in the West of Calderdale yet the council have allocated that its the area of development in the Southeast where air pollution is the worst.”
Councillor Scott Patient, cabinet member for climate change and resilience said: “there’s always push back whenever there is housing proposed near people by those who already live there but the houses that those people live in were built at some point.”
Giles Walker a member of the Greetland’s pressure group dismissed the idea that the group doesn’t want new homes being built in Greetland.
Walker said, “nobody in Greetland pressure group is against new development.
Walker continued to say “there comes a time when you reach the point where the road network, infrastructure, doctors, schools etc are at the point where they are full.”
Residents across Calderdale are able to comment on the main modifications to the housing plan and now have until the 21st October to have their say.
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