A HOUSE building ban has been slapped on green fields in Eastburn until 2015.

And homes will no longer be built on an historic patch of land in Addingham.

The two villages came out clear winners when Bradford Council's new planning blueprint was unveiled this week.

However, green fields in Silsden are still earmarked for homes.

No new housing sites are being suggested for the Craven ward of Bradford in the new plan of what can be built where.

But some areas have been removed from the document - known as the Unitary Development Plan - and other changes have been made.

The major alterations are:

Addingham - The historic Manor Garth site has been removed.

Locals proved to planning experts that it was of real archaeological interest dating back to the 15th century.

Land to the north of Addingham will be protected by a new area of green belt.

Bradford Council planning manager Andy Haigh said: "We've done this because we realised the pressure for development in Addingham and felt that it needed protecting."

The village's former first school site has also been allocated for housing, although a conversion of the existing building would be accepted.

Steeton and Eastburn - A large area of green land next to Airedale Hospital in Eastburn is safe from houses until at least 2015 and will only be built on as a last resort.

The land has been the subject of a planning application by Taywood Homes but the plan was scrapped at the last minute.

A small site near the railway at Steeton has been removed from the latest plan due to flooding fears. And a housing site at Halsteads Way cannot be developed until 2009.

Silsden - All the green field sites earmarked for houses in the last plan remain, but new rules have been introduced to say when they can be built on.

Mr Haigh said: "We can't take those sites out as there are no clear planning reasons to do so.

"If we take them out we'd have to replace them and it would be a different set of green fields."

Mr Haigh added that the Silsden housing sites were a vital part of the number of homes which have to be built across Bradford.

He said a consortium of landowners had already had talks with developers.

The housing site to the south of the canal at Silsden and the nearby employment land can only be developed when the planned relief road for the town has been constructed as far as Howden Road.

Housing will not be allowed on sites to the north of the canal until after 2009 and once the relief road has been completed.

Two areas for building new shopping developments in Silsden have also been earmarked. These are at the former Tunnicliffe's Yard, off Sykes Lane, and industrial buildings on Howden Road.

Consultation on the planned route of the Silsden relief road is being put on hold until after comments about the new UDP have been received.

The draft UDP will have to be sanctioned by councillors next week before it goes out to public consultation though a series of surgeries and a public inquiry in summer 2002.