Residents in Holmfirth may launch an appeal to stop a housing development.
Kirklees Council passed John and Janet Armitage’s plans to build 14 houses off Vicarage Meadows in Cinderhills, Holmfirth, earlier this month.
But residents of Vicarage Meadows say the planning committee did not consider their application fairly.
Now neighbours are considering taking the decision to the Planning Inspectorate in the hope an inspector will overturn the council’s decision.
They are concerned that the new development will add traffic onto the local roads and that the drains and sewers will be unable to cope.
Neighbour and campaign organiser Barry Bedford said: “We’re not happy with it; we don’t think it got a fair hearing.
“We put these concerns to the planning committee and it just went over their heads.
“We’re looking at the options to appeal this decision.”
Lesley Smith, 66, who lives next to the site, said: “I don’t think it was fairly considered by Kirklees Council.
“I might as well put my bungalow in the middle of Manchester if they’re going to be building that.”
Neighbour Martin Page, 35, added: “It’s just more green land going when there’s brownfield land to be used.”
Clr Paul Kane, who chaired the committee which passed the Armitages’ plan, said the proposal had been properly considered and invited objectors to refer the decision to the Planning Inspectorate.
The Labour councillor said: “We took into consideration the reports the council officers did, the comments from the objectors and the planning policies and guidance.
“I’m a great believer in democracy and the Planning Inspectorate is there to see if councils have made the right decisions.
“I never discourage anyone from doing it; it’s part of democracy.”
Clr Kane added that councils were bound by national planning policy but the committee would give residents ‘the benefit of the doubt’.
