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Residents wanted to keep bumpy road to deter drivers
RESIDENTS objected to their bumpy patched-up road being improved – because they thought it might become too busy.
A developer had offered to make up Kerry Hill at Horsforth, Leeds as part of a housing scheme.
It wanted to bring it up to adoptable standards and to build nine terraced houses in a former quarry.
Mark Philipson, spokesman for residents in Prospect Terrace, said bollards were erected across the street 25 years ago because of unacceptable volumes of traffic.
They were worried that if the road were improved, the bollards would be taken away and traffic would return.
But Leeds West plans panel insisted that the bollards should stay and should even be upgraded.
It approved an application in principle for Chartford Developments to build the houses subject to some changes.
It said the houses should to be set further back and reduced in height, and built with real stone.
Planning officers will try to negotiate these changes with the developers.
The site was used as a quarry between 1840 and 1910 and then in-filled.
Yorkshire Electricity planned a sub-station there but then sold the land in 2003 to local resident David Sandham.
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