Council housing plan for Warley ward would see loss of playing fields, parks and part of Moor

GreenSpaces

Calderdale Council has announced its consultation on the sites its planning to allocate for housing within the Ward. I’ve had a look at the sites that are covered in Warley ward, and if they were to go ahead in the current form we would lose almost every green space in the ward.

I’ve spoken to Councillor James Baker and we are going to be launching a major campaign to save and protect the green spaces within Warley ward. There are plenty of places that you could build in Calderdale that would not result in the loss of playing fields, recreation grounds and children’s play parks. It is unacceptable for the Labour run Council to list these sites as potential housing sites in the current consultation on the local plan.

To illustrate the sheer scale of what is being proposed here is a quick list of some of the sites identified in Warley ward:

Doctors Hill LP1459

Ling Bob Playing Fields Site reference LP0967 – To build 72 houses on the playing fields behind Harewood Avenue, Ling Royd and Rye Lane.

Fountainhead – LP0983 – Another 40 houses

Mount Tabor – LP1440 – 110 houses and LP0872 87 houses.

Pellon Allotments – LP0156 – To build 31 houses on site that is currently uses as allotments.

Roils Head Moor LP1374, LP1458, LP0093 – 97 Houses behind Vicar Park, another 32 by the Reservoir, and a further ‘urban expansion citing a residential capacity of 2862

Sandbeds Park LP1353 – 16 Houses on the Children’s play park.

Warley Town LP0042, LP1276 & more – Land on recreation ground, cricket pitch and Green Hill. 56 Houses on recreation ground, 30 on the Cricket Ground and 47 at Green Hill.

Windle Royd – LP1457 – Urban expansion with a population size of 1762 cited.

If you are as concerned about this as I am, do please respond to the consultation and also sign the petition we have set-up to help protect Calderdale’s green spaces.

HousingPlan

Warley Town is surrounded by new housing sites under the plan

Friends of Roils Head Moor

We’ve been talking about this with residents for some time and now it is coming to fruition. So really looking forward to meeting people at the Grace Baptist Church from 10-12 on Saturday 15th August and getting things moving . . . . .