Do not let housing spoil town’s beautiful setting

I AM concerned with planning applications on green open spaces that defines our town from others.

When you come into Huddersfield from Rastrick over the top of New Hey Road and you view Huddersfield you can see the town in all its glory with intricate housing and surrounded by countryside.

It still looks unique and somewhere different. You see Castle Hill, the Emley Moor mast, in a regal salute, again surrounded by countryside.

This is what you see when you approach Ainley Top – it is beautiful and unspoilt. Even coming from the M62 roundabout you are privy to green open spaces and people can be seen walking their dog admiring the view and space.

Housing up to Ainley Top and Yew Tree Lane would spoil all of that. It spoils the dramatic entrance you have when you come into Huddersfield on the A62 from the M62.

We are still blessed with the valley that Yew Tree Lane provides but I can see this being a town like Coventry. Have you ever been to Coventry? It’s a concrete jungle, one which I would not like to live in.

There has to come a time when enough building on green open space is enough.

Planners already have information on how the new estate they have given permission to build on has devastated the land up at Lindley Moor and how the new houses hit the skyline complemented by the industrial estate to meet you from the Outlane approach. Whose bright idea was that? It does not look pleasing to the eye, mind or soul at all. It just makes me think it is this going to be like the M606 from Bradford to the M62 where all you see is industrial estates and housing.

Planners – you already know how it is effecting the roads, schools, services of the surrounding Ainley Top suburbs.

It will get more congested, more populated, more urbanised, not enough services to provide for the community it has already got. Is this the planning you put forward for 95 houses?