WORRIED residents have clashed with a housing association carrying out groundwork on the site for a controversial care complex awaiting a public inquiry decision. Campaigners in Bedale who have battled to stop Broadacres and North Yorkshire County Council building a £12.5m care complex on a site at the rear of Queen Anne’s Drive have protested after diggers and workers moved in to “carry out maintenance”. Broadacres insist it is carrying out the work as a “responsible landowner to ensure the area remains safe, secure and attractive for the local community”. The housing association added: “This is being carried out ahead of the start of the nesting season and an ecologist will be in attendance to ensure the protection of wildlife, flora and fauna.”