HOUSING plans submitted by Bradford Council could make a dangerous road near a primary school even more treacherous, according to scores of residents who are fighting the scheme.

They say the application for 12, two bedroom houses on a plot of council owned land of Highfield Road in Idle could exacerbate traffic issues near Blakehill Primary School.

It would result in cars coming into and out of the new estate just yards from the school, which has suffered from parents parking dangerously when picking up and dropping off children.

Even the council's own highways officer says the proposal is "unacceptable" in its current form.

A similar scheme for 14 houses on the same plot of land were refused last year, and now residents of surrounding roads have flooded the council's planning department with objections in the hope the new scheme is thrown out too.

The council refused its own plans last year citing overdevelopment of the site, overshadowing of neighbouring properties, which are on a lower level than the proposed houses, and highway safety.

Councillor Dominic Fear (Liberal Democrat, Idle and Thackley), has passed on numerous objections to the plans that he had been handed by residents late last week. He said: "It is a bit of a daft place to put new houses. It is not the best of junctions, especially being next to a school.

"We would get more cars coming out on a pretty dangerous area. Because of the bad parking of some parents it is a dangerous road, and to add more cars there is poor planning. Almost everyone I have spoken to round here thinks this plan is nonsensical.

"There are a lot of other problems too, including the fact that the development would overshadow a lot of people's homes."

Terence Bedell, of Northedge Meadow, has written to the council saying: "Building on this site with the access from Doctor Hill will cause chaos in an already chaotic area."

Tim Brearley, who lives on Evesham Grove, is one of the residents to object for overshadowing reasons. He said: "The concern we've got is the issue of overshadowing. If this goes ahead we will be overlooked so badly we will hardly have any privacy.

"An application was refused last year and the council has come back with almost exactly the same plan."

The council's highway's department has already weighed in on the application. Their response says: "The application as submitted in its present form is unacceptable. However if the applicant was prepared to amend the application I would be prepared to reconsider my objection."

The application would also involve a pumping station being built on site to help with drainage.

A council spokesman said it was not able to comment on the objections, as it was an active application.

A decision will be made in June.