MP shows support for campaign to save our countryside

The campaign to save Silsden's countryside goes into the new year with the placing of an eye-catching banner in one of the fields under threat. Local MP John Grogan is pictured above next to the banner on the right on Saturday, January 12th, when he met campaigners in the field alongside historic Brown Bank Lane, where planning permission is being sought for a new road, which would pave the way for up to 1,000 homes to be built on farmland towards Hawber Cote. The gathering included town councillors Darren Edwards, David Loud and Mark Wogden. Plans for the road, which would also serve Silsden's new school in Hawber Cote Lane, were the subject of my posts of September 30th, August 24th and July 17th.