MAJOR objections to road changes to pave the way for a controversial warehouse and housing scheme near junction 25 of the M62 look set to be overruled.

Almost 50 people and local councillors have raised concerns about the proposed new traffic regulations surrounding the Moor Park 25 business unit scheme and 166 home development at Mirfield Moor.

Running along the A62 near Liversedge, Caddick Developments is building seven units, incorporating warehousing and offices, and Taylor Wimpey will build the housing on the neighbouring plot of land.

Outline permission was approved in 2015 for the commercial development, while full permission was granted for the housing as part of the same joint application. Detailed plans for the warehousing were submitted to Kirklees Council planners last year, and a decision is still pending.

In the meantime as part of the 2015 application, a traffic regulation order has been advertised to modify the nearby junction of the A62 Huddersfield Road with Child Lane to Roberttown.

The developer is to pay for the works and the changes are intended to “mitigate against the additional traffic generated by the development site”.

The changes include banning drivers from making a right turn from Huddersfield Road into Child Lane, and from a left turn out of Child Lane onto the main A62 road.

Concerns raised by the 47 objectors to the proposals include that it will increase rat-running through Roberttown; it will see additional traffic wanting to turn right out of the nearby Lumb Lane junction which already cannot cope; and it will make the junction in question with Sunny Bank Road worse.

Liversedge and Gomersal ward councillors David Hall and Lisa Holmes have also raised concerns about the no left turn proposal out of Child Lane.

“They believe the traffic analysis for the current proposals were completed prior to the opening of the retail park on the A62.

“Their concerns are that if the proposals are approved this will lead to an increase in the volume of traffic turning right out of Lumb Lane onto the A62, Huddersfield Road.

“They believe this is an near-impossible manoeuvre at peak times and will result in traffic being prevented from doing this turn completely,” states a report to the Council’s cabinet committee for local issues.

In response highways officers believe that while the retail development of Fountain Court and general traffic growth does appear to have increased the number of left turning vehicles from Child Lane, the numbers are relatively low, and can be absorbed by the additional capacity gained from the changes.

“The benefits for the thousands of drivers who use this stretch of the A62 on a daily basis will be significant due to the reworking of the traffic signals allowing for separately signalled right and left turns into Sunny Bank Road,” officers state.

Despite the objections, it is recommended that the traffic regulation order be implemented without change, when the meeting takes place on February 11 in Huddersfield.

According to the developers’ websites, construction for the access to the site began last year and work is expected to start on the homes this summer.