AMAZON has spoken out after its application for a huge warehouse near Chain Bar was refused. 

Since their inception, the proposals, for a site in Scholes, Cleckheaton, received a great deal of backlash, receiving almost 2,000 representations. The majority of these were objections, including those from local councillors and MP Kim Leadbeater, as well as residents. 

Concerns ranged from noise and light pollution to increased traffic and the imposing nature of the building. Many of these issues were raised by the impassioned speakers at Wednesday’s committee meeting where the application was refused by four votes to three.

A spokesperson for Amazon told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “We will now consider our options for this location.”

Amazon could submit an appeal against the decision of Kirklees Council’s Strategic Planning Committee but no more detail has been provided on the matter.

Campaign group Save Our Spen (SOS) came together in response to the contentious application. 

A spokesperson for SOS said: “The decision shows what can be achieved by a community when faced, with on the face of it, impossible odds.

“Some people said it was a done deal. Some people involved in this application thought we would run out of steam and just go away and the application would pass. They were so wrong."