{"id":625873,"date":"2025-12-11T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/625873\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:11:13","slug":"crofton-homes-to-be-approved-despite-hundreds-of-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/625873\/","title":{"rendered":"Crofton homes to be approved despite hundreds of objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site earmarked for development by Miller Homes was previously greenbelt land but was allocated for housing in the council&#8217;s latest Local Plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The application by Miller Homes proposed a range of one to four-bedroom properties to be built along a new road leading from Santingley Lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crofton Parish Council said the scheme should be refused on the grounds of its &#8220;negative impact on highway safety, environmental sustainability, and the well-being of the local community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kate Wray, of Stop Crofton Developments, previously said: &#8220;In the 23 years I have lived in Crofton I have seen it grow beyond its capabilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have a doctor&#8217;s surgery that is impossible to get an appointment at, our dentist has a four-year waiting list and schools are full to the brim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said traffic through the village was &#8220;atrocious at peak times&#8221; and that accidents &#8220;regularly happen at a time when school children are about.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The site earmarked for development by Miller Homes was previously greenbelt land but was allocated for housing in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-625873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115699927265573999","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}