Campaigners in Otley are celebrating after Leeds City Council paused plans for a development that would have seen 700 homes and a new road built in the town.
The massive scheme drew almost 1000 complaints on the Leeds City Council planning website from people in the town, and campaign groups criticised it for failing to take into account the climate crisis or the biodiversity crisis.
Andrew Howarth, the Community Development Lead of Otley 2030, a group dedicated to making the town carbon-zero by 2030, said the East of Otley development had not taken into account local people’s views.
