D-day is fast-approaching for three controversial housing schemes that could lead to more than 700 new homes being built in the district.

An outline application for up to 440 homes on green fields off Sty Lane, Micklethwaite, will be heard at Bingley Arts Centre at 10am this Friday, when councillors are being recommended to approve the scheme despite thousands of objections.

And on Tuesday, councillors from the Shipley Area Planning Panel will meet in Menston to determine two major housing schemes, the first involving 174 homes at Derry Hill, Menston, and the second 124 homes at Bingley Road, Menston.

And campaigners have vowed to fight controversial plans put forward by Bradford Council to build homes on long-established community land where a Royal Wedding party was held earlier this year.

People living in Hoyle Court Avenue and Kirklands, Baildon, are rallying their neighbours in objecting to the plans, which they fear will mean the removal of the only safe area of green space used by children in the area.

Now Bradford Council, which owns the land, has applied for planning permission to build one three-bedroom detached and two semi-detached homes next to the railway line on the land at Hoyle Court Avenue.