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Read My Speech on Mobile Phone Masts (Click Here)
Planning Applications
I have worked closely with local people to resist or reduce controversial developments.
These have included major applications, such as High Royds, Riverside, Horsforth, Broom Mills, Farsley and Carlisle Road cutting, Pudsey, as well as numerous smaller scale ones.
Some sites have changed from industrial use to housing, and there are others in the pipeline, such as the remainder of the Silver Cross site and Brook Crompton in Guiseley.
If there is a planning application in your area that concerns you, please contact me. (Contact)
Mobile Phone Masts
In recent years, the constituency has seen a number of controversial mobile phone mast applications.
Besides supporting constituents in objecting to inappropriate mast sites, I
have also pursued these concerns at parliamentary level. As secretary of the
All-Party Group on Mobile Telecommunications, I helped produce a 19-point
report to the Government calling for improvements to the planning process. I
also secured an Adjournment Debate to pursue the report with Ministers.
Read My Speech on Mobile Phone Masts (Click Here)
Green Belt
Planning Inspectors appointed by the Conservative Government took two
areas of the constituency out of the green belt in 1995 - part of Yeadon Banks, and Kirklees Knowl/Beech Lees, Farsley. I have been working with local residents to reverse this ever since.
Planning guidance from the present Government has given the Council a case for putting the land back in the greenbelt, and it has done so. We now have to wait for the outcome of a public inquiry prompted by those who want to develop the two areas.
Yeadon Tarn
I am delighted that Yeadon Tarn, which I helped to secure resources
for in the past, has now secured a £800,000 lottery grant for refurbishing the activity centre. The Tarn is already the venue for some excellent work that is run on a shoestring. This massive injection of cash will allow the Tarn's potential to be fulfilled. I will continue pressing for improvements to the other facilities and paths at the Tarn.
Rodley Nature Reserve
I have supported the Committee of this wonderful oasis that was reclaimed
from sewage works beside the River Aire between Rodley and Horsforth.
This has included taking up local pollution issues with Yorkshire Water.
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