COLNE Valley MP Jason McCartney attacked Kirklees Council in Parliament yesterday.

The Conservative criticised the Local Development Framework during a debate about planning in the House of Commons.

He said: “Concerned residents in my beautiful Colne Valley constituency are angered by a poor quality consultation on Kirklees Council’s Local Development Framework.

“The Labour-led council are still obsessed with the top-down housing targets of the previous government as they try to impose 28,000 new homes on our area.”

Mr McCartney also criticised Kirklees for allowing two developments to go ahead last month.

“There was a fiasco over permission for 294 new homes and data campus on Lindley Moor,” he said.

“Despite democratically elected councillors voting against the housing plans, the planning department and council leadership kept going until they got a narrow eight to seven vote in favour of the controversial development on green fields.

“The development should have been rejected on the grounds of poor infrastructure with clogged roads, over-subscribed schools and medical services stretched.”

Mr McCartney was speaking in a debate about the Government’s National Planning Policy Framework which would create “a presumption in favour of development”.