FURIOUS residents on an estate are demanding action over a new housing development on their doorstep.
Kirklees Council flats are being built just yards from homes in Ridge Street, Cross Lane and Lockwood Scar at Primrose Hill.
Planning permission was granted in February, but tenants want the work stopped.
They say the three-storey flats will block out their light and invade their privacy. They also say they are not the legal nine metres away from their homes.
But the protesters say the council is ignoring their fears.
The angry band of householders are to hold a public meeting to discuss an action plan.
Campaign leader Jean Goodison, who lives nearby, has accused Kirklees of not caring about the other tenants. She said the protesters need assurances that no planning rules are being broken.
She added: "They won't let us on the site to check if the building regulations are being adhered to.
"They won't speak to us; it just feels like we are being ignored.
"Work has started it is has dawned on the people living close to the site that their lives are going to be affected.
"There is a lot of public feeling about this. We want reassurances about a lot of things.
"We have asked council officials to come to the homes and look for themselves at the problems people will face.
But they don't seem interested."
A public meeting will be held at Primrose Hill Baptist Church in Cross Lane next Wednesday, starting at 7pm.
Mrs Goodison expects a big turnout. She said: "We are handing out leaflets and letting as many people as possible know. We will not just shut up and go away."
But Kirklees has snubbed the meeting, saying there is no new planning matter to discuss.
A spokesman said: "Complaints about the siting of the houses were checked by an enforcement officer and the houses were found to be in the right position.
"As such, it seems that the planning permission is being implemented in accordance with the approved plans and we would not be involved further.
"But we would, of course, investigate any further alleged breaches of the permission.
"As there appear to be no new planning issues we could advise on it is not the sort of meeting we would attend.
"If residents' representatives want to meet planning officers to discuss the issues raised at the public meeting we would be happy to do this, if they give us advance notice of the issues they want to discuss."
