Residents have responded angrily to the approval of plans for 15 homes in Cononley, near Skipton.

Several turned up to Craven District Council's planning committee in a bid to urge councillors to either defer the application off Meadow Lane for a site visit, or turn it down.

However, it was approved – providing a written “no objection” was received from Yorkshire Water.

Councillors had been advised by planning officers to approve the scheme following the receipt of no objections from the highways authority, the Environment Agency and a verbal no objection from Yorkshire Water.

At the meeting, a spokesman for objectors said there were many concerns to the application by John Teal to develop the two fields immediately to the east of Meadow Close.

They included a build-up of traffic, difficult access and the ultimate down-grading of the character of the village.

Lois Brown, chairman of Cononley Parish Council, said the council was not against development, which it saw as contributing to the future of the village, but thought the density of the scheme was too high.