SIR – I live on Bolton Road, near the present construction of 46 houses. This so-called ‘brown field’ site was a field for 40 years, which was full of trees and wildlife.

I am angry to learn now that Bradford Council’s planning department are even considering an application to build a three-storey block of apartments next to these 46 houses, on land formerly the site of the Wild Boar Pub.

When permission was granted for the 46 houses, the planning documents clearly stated that the former pub site would be landscaped and trees planted.

If this application for nine apartments is granted, the community will lose the landscape and the use of the public footpath, which runs behind the site and down to Queens Road.

This adds insult to injury, as no one in the community has been consulted, and a public footpath is a public right of way!

How can this even considered?

Barbara Howerska, Bolton Road, Bradford