CLEVELEYS Park residents are stepping up their campaign to save land threatened by Wyre's Local Plan proposals.

Objections to the plan, which sets out land use proposals for the next ten years, have to be submitted to Wyre Civic Centre by August 5.

And Robert Gibson, of Northumberland Avenue, is leading a campaign to save a strip of land on College Farm between Consett Avenue and Amounderness Way earmarked for housing development.

He is urging people to complete objection forms and feels he has so far had a good response, saying: "Myself and neighbours Alan Tomlinson and Fred Clayton have been collecting forms and I personally handed in 77 yesterday.

"The main objection is the increased traffic which the new development will bring, but there are many other problems associated with it.

"The site is reclaimed marshland and is waterlogged every winter as well as being used by an estimated 7,000 wildfowl."

Last summer Fairclough Homes had a planning application for the site rejected, but now there are plans to build 70 new properties - part of 5,620 the council has to build during the next ten years.

Council leader Richard Anyon said: "We will see if any modification to the plans can be made to accommodate those objections.

"However, the council will still be left with the difficulties of allocating a housing allocation which we feel is far too large."

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