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OTLEY residents have been updated about the likely works schedule for the town’s long-awaited flood defence scheme. A Flood Alleviation Scheme was announced by the Government in 2016 after the town had suffered a string of severe floods at the end of 2015 - the worst of which was ushered in by Storm Eva on Boxing Day. A £3.3 million proposal, which will involve creating a flood embankment along the west of Billams Hill, was agreed in March this year. The COVID-19 crisis, however, has d...

A SCHEME that will see Holme Wood and Apperley Bridge become “future growth locations” has been approved. West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s “Spatial Priority Areas” were agreed at a meeting yesterday, and the two areas of Bradford have been classed as areas where there could be large housing developments, or the creation of large scale employment developments. The Canal Road Corridor is classed as an “Investment Location” - a site where future housing and employment develo...

Woodhall Road in Thornbury - one of the sites likely to be dropped from the housing allocations LEEDS council decision-makers look set to finally scrap long-term plans to allow building to take place on dozens of green belt sites in the district - including many on the Bradford border. The move, which will see councillors consider a proposal for 37 sites to be removed from Leeds’s Site Allocations Plan, follows a high court ruling earlier this year. Leeds Council now claims that, upon r...