RESIDENTS faced with high rise properties and no water are raging about plans for 204 homes at Bolton-upon-Dearne.
The AWG Group has put in a planning application with Barnsley Council to develop a former factory site between the railway line and the sewage works on Lowfield Road. It will more than double the number of properties feeding into a narrow lane.
Only 30 of the proposed properties are detached houses, 52 are semi-detached and the rest are three storey terraced houses and apartments.
Calder Road residents on the other side of the railway line fear an invasion of their privacy, especially the homes at the bottom of the hill.
“They will be able to see right into our houses and gardens,’ said Maureen Austin a member of Friends of Lowfield Road Action Group which has a 50-strong core group.
“We’re not against houses on the site but are against so many and we don’t want three storey properties.”
But it’s the residents of Lowfield Road and Lowfield Meadows who live with the problems of low water pressure, heavy traffic and road safety.
They feel they have been hoodwinked and let down by consultants who held meetings to discuss local issues with them before submitting a planning application.
