And this is only the start.....

Work is under way in the field alongside Bolton Road near the junctions with North Street and Brown Bank Lane, preparing the way for Persimmon's development of 138 homes on the popularly walked farmland between here and Hawber Cote.

The picture above shows the same field in June 2021.  Hard to believe that Bradford councillors approved the upmarket housing estate without even visiting the fields, most of which are crossed by public footpaths, to see why the area has been treasured by generations of Silsdeners.   The destructive power of earth-shifting machines and the development that is to come will leave only memories of nature that was abundant with wildflowers, trees, songbirds and hedgerows.

Sheep used to graze in the buttercup-rich meadow which will soon be developed. The houses here will abut the Bolton Road allotments. The two pictures below tell their own story.