Greetland is around one mile from Elland. Credit: via Social

Keyland looks to develop 230-home Greetland scheme

The Calderdale site has already been allocated for homes in the local plan and now the Yorkshire-based developer is seeking community input on its masterplan.

Following the public consultation, Keyland will submit an outline planning application to the council in spring.

Michael Powell, land and planning manager at Keyland, said: “Periods of engagement and consultation provide an opportunity for residents, and businesses, to help shape elements of a place and how it works for them.

“We’re proud of the principles we have created for the scheme, which will deliver new homes to help address the housing crisis, provide jobs and economic growth, blue and green infrastructure, and public spaces for the community to relax and spend time in.”

A drop-in event will take place at the Greetland Community and Sports Centre on Rochdale Road on 11 February, from 2-7pm.

The proposals are also available to view online: ellistonesgateconsultation.co.uk.

The deadline for responses is 21 February.

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Once again developers are hell bent on destroying greenbelt land. Building those homes will not only destroy this part of the village, but will put enormous pressure on local doctors, and also enormously increase already congestion through West Vale.As for bringing extra business to the area, I don’t think so. This is a village, not Leeds City Centre.

By Michael Scott

Just to add to my previous comment, if this proposed development gets { god forbid} passed are they then going to build bigger schools to educate the obvious children who will be living there, because the two local infant/junior schools will be too small.

By Michael Scott

Which lunatic thinks it’s a great idea to build hundreds of new houses on the Green Belt in the already over populated village of Greetland. It is absolutely ridiculous. The traffic lights at the end of Saddleworth Road, at the junction with Stainland Road, and the traffic lights at the bottom of Rochdale Road are gridlocked from 7am until 10am and between 4pm and 7pm every working day. This is already totally unacceptable for people trying to get to and from work. Adding another 300 or more vehicles from this new development will only add to the congestion and reduce the air quality for everyone, particularly kids walking to school. There is currently one doctors surgery sited in West Vale which has to serve the whole of the Greetland area. Adding another 6 or 7 hundred people is beyond their capability. There is 1 dentist in West Vale to serve the whole village, they would be overrun. At the current uk birth rate there would be approximately 300 extra school children from this development. The local schools in Greetland and West Vale could not accommodate so many extra pupils. The drainage around this part of Saddleworth Road is terrible. Saddleworth Roads grates are constantly blocked and whenever there is significant rain, the water cascades down the road. We could do with that problem being repaired before any more houses are built around this area.
I realise there is a need for new housing and it has to go somewhere, but I notice on the local plan there are brown field sites allocated for housing that should be considered before using Green Belt fields in an already overpopulated area which does not have the infrastructure to support such a development.

By Anthony Walsh

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