Bulldozers move housing scheme

Boyle, who gave his address as HMP Wealstun in Wetherby, gave no indication of plea to the two charges.

Magistrates committed his case to Leeds Crown Court where he will first appear on August 9.

He was remanded into custody as a serving prisoner but voiced his displeasure at being brought before the Huddersfield court.

As he was removed from the dock by security officers, he ranted: “I f ****** g hate the police – they can go to hell.

“F ***** g w ***** s. I’m getting stitched up.”

After refusing requests from magistrates to mind his language he was taken away, leaving his solicitor Mohammed Arif to apologise on his behalf. New signage at the junction of Grimescar Road and Burn Road for the housing development being built in the Grimescar valley

And he said the authority lacked a proper plan that would safeguard the area going forward.

“More and more development is being forced upon us despite the wishes of people,” he said.

“Soon all the fields will be gone, tarmacked over and they will have to move on somewhere else. It makes me angry and it angers a lot of residents.

“We are just not been listened to. We do need affordable housing but these houses will not be affordable to a lot of us.

“”It’s about doing it the right way. Had things been done fairly and there had been a proper plan it would have been different, but I have seen none of it.

“To talk about it afterwards means nothing to people who will have to live with that site for years and years.”

Leeds-based developer Harron Homes is building 95 homes on land off Burn Road and Yew Tree Road in Birchencliffe.

Signs indicates that the development will be known as Oaklands Heath. Work is underway on both