A “BIZARRE” plan to knock down three houses and create access to build homes on a landfill site in Mirfield has been thrown out.
Horsforth-based Yorkshire Property Estates Ltd had asked for its application to build 63 homes on a filled-in former quarry off Old Bank Lane to be deferred.
But Kirklees Council’s seven-member Strategic Planning Committee voted unanimously to refuse the scheme instead.
Builders wanted to create an access road to the site by bulldozing three terraced houses on Old Bank Road.
That was described as “a bit bizarre” by one councillor.
But the main argument against building was made made by Mirfield councillor Martyn Bolt, who said it was “stupid” to consider digging up land that had been contaminated over many years, including with spent industrial and chemical waste.