A Planning Application for 550 houses for a Greenfield Site at Laneside Farm in Churwell has been lodged by Persimmons Homes.
Morley Borough Independent Town and City Councillors are opposing this application for 4 separate reasons. The first is the levels of highway congestion on Churwell Hill and the associated increase levels of pollution. Our second reason for opposition is that local primary and secondary schools are already full and cannot accommodate the additional 137 primary school children and 55 secondary school children this site would generate. There are presently less than a dozen spare places in primary schools across the Morley wide area. Our third reason is that the local health centre cannot cope with the additional 2000 + patients this site will generate putting more strain on an already busy local health service. The fourth is that this is a valuable Greenfield site which offers a positive “greenbelt” barrier between Churwell and Morley.
The Development is likely to be modelled on Persimmons Daisy Hill site with the majority of homes likely to be 4 bedroomed executive style housing with as little affordable housing for local people that the Developer can get away with. This will still leave over 2,000 on the Morley housing waiting list without offering any real hope for residents needing a home at an affordable rent.
You can help to oppose this application by attending a Public Meeting at Morley Town Hall on Tuesday 7th June at 7pm to discuss residents’ concerns.
We hope we can count on your continuing support to keep Laneside Farm a Greenfield site. We believe in putting people first - not Developers profits. We recently defeated Persimmons with an application they lodged for housing on a Greenfield site at Churwell New Village and beat McDonalds at Tingley to prevent a fast food takeaway next to Woodkirk High School. Together we can win this campaign!
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