Developers are again trying to crack the last egg farmer in Shipley after previous attempts failed - but they will face fierce objections.

Peter Kitching, 61, faces losing his livelihood if planners are allowed to build ten houses with 20 car parking spaces on land he has rented for more than 30 years.

Mr Kitching has already collected 3,200 signatures from customers and neighbours protesting against the current proposed development on Oak Bank Farm and surrounding land in Wrose.

He said: "It is annoying when it's your livelihood that keeps being put at risk.

"The Government wants farmers to sell their own produce and diversify, and Bradford Council supports farmers' markets and local produce markets.

"But if this goes ahead I will have to close - and I am doing exactly what the Council and the Government want.

"I have got more than 3,000 people saying they want me to keep supplying them with fresh eggs, so it's up to the Council to decide whether they think ten houses are more important than 3,000 people with fresh eggs.

"There is no way I could stay there because the houses would be built where the chicken huts currently are and at my time of life you can't be spending about £1 million on a farmhouse with three acres of land."

Nigel Peck and Lindsey Manley have led the campaign against the development in the past and are gearing up for another fight with the developers.

Mr Peck said: "It is very frustrating.

"You just want it to come to an end and with the last one being rejected, you would have thought he couldn't put the same application in again."

Mr Peck lists a wealth of reasons against the proposed development on the site savechildslane.co.uk.

He said: "One of the main concerns is the danger it will pose to people who are walking up Childs Lane because there wouldn't be any footpath and it is used by a lot of children.

"We also don't want to lose the farm - I think the farm gives a nice rural feeling to the area and the people there really don't want to see the end of it."

The land is owned by two brothers and a sister who have agreed to sell to developers Radical Property Ltd if an application is successful.

Mr Kitching looks after 7,000 hens, selling 35,000 eggs a week at markets across Yorkshire and from a trailer at Five Lane Ends.

David Halliday, of Radical Property, said the application was "virtually identical" to the previous applications.

He said: "We have just addressed some of the issues of the last refusal in the earlier application - it's a better quality with better particulars.

"The last one had officer recommendation for approval but then the committee came up with some grievances.

"I would be surprised if the officers didn't recommend it to be approved again.