Menston is facing the prospect of another 450 houses being built in the village, according to Bradford's planning blueprint.

But residents in Burley-in-Wharfedale will be celebrating because the Department of the Environment inspector has turned down appeals by developers to release large swathes of land from the green belt for new housing.

The Unitary Development Plan (UDP) report is the result of a nine-month public inquiry into the council's planning blueprint for the next 15 years.

The UDP spells out where the council would allow developments for housing, industry, shops and offices to take place.

The key priority in the new plan is the re-use of urban and brownfield sites and the safeguarding of greenfield areas.

But the effect on Menston of the UDP could be devastating. As well as the proposals to build around 550 houses on the site of the former High Royds hospital, the inspector has allocated two further housing sites.

A site at Derry Hill, with room for 150 houses, and Bingley Road, with room for 300 houses, have both been recommended as housing sites to be removed from the green belt with development taking place after 2009.

A site at Bradford Road will be retained in the green belt.

That means including High Royds, a total of 1,000 new homes could be built in the village in the next eight years.

Coun Hawkesworth said: "There is good news in this report for many parts of the district.

"However, I am unhappy at the inspector's recommendations that we should take even more land out of the green belt."

In Burley-in-Wharfedale the inspector has backed campaigners who were trying to preserve Burley House Field at St Philip's Drive.

The inspector has recommended that the field be retained as village open space.

The only housing site that has been allocated by the inspector in Burley is a plot of land at Endor Crescent, which is big enough for around 35 to 40 houses.

But that site has been reserved for long-term development and won't be used until after 2014.

The council will now consider the report and publish a new plan in response to the inspector's recommendations.

The modified plan will be debated by the council's executive committee later this year and will be open to public comment before being ratified by the full council.