ILKLEY Open Market welcomes a new trader this spring, Gluten Freekz based in Wharfedale, who specialise in handcrafted, all gluten free pastries, sweet treats, rustic ready meals all using locally sourced fresh produce and ingredients. The family-owned business is run by Trisha and Mark Powell who have been selling their range of products at farmers markets across West Yorkshire since 2015. Trisha has a background in professional catering management and has used her culinary expertise in food preparation to produce a range of specialist gluten free products made from local ingredients to cater for a wide variety of dietary needs including dairy free, vegan and nut free.
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AN MP who said he did “everything humanly possible” to stop hundreds of homes being built on greenbelt in Burley-in-Wharfedale has branded the development “an act of vandalism” after the final attempt to stop it going ahead failed. The Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government Robert Jenrick yesterday confirmed that planning permission has been granted for 500 homes and a new primary school to the west of Burley-in-Wharfedale at Sun Lane. Shipley MP Philip Davies opposed the development since its initial application and said “the blame for this lays firmly with Bradford Council.” Mr Davies said: “The fact the Secretary of State initially blocked this development shows - in my view - that was his clear personal view. The problem is that it seems he was unable to find a watertight legal case for doing so, caused largely by the fact - as he puts in his decision - that Bradford Council had designated Burley-in-Wharfedale as
RESIDENTS are being urged to have their say on new housing plans which could see hundreds of homes built on the Green Belt in Wharfedale. Bradford Council has begun a consultation on its Local Plan, a document that will map out sites where housing should, and should not, be built. Of 30,672 homes to be built in the district between 2020 and 2038 (1,704 per year) the Council says 21 per cent of homes will have to be built on the Green Belt. In Ilkley sites put forward in the Green Belt are: Wheatley Grove 130 homes; Skipton Road East, 20 homes and Coutances Way 155 homes on open pasture fields to the east of Wheatley Lane. A site for nine homes at Stockheld Road has also been identified.
PEOPLE in Bradford are being warned to be extra vigilant amid fears the mutant strain of Covid-19 could become more common in the next few weeks. Professor John Wright, an epidemiologist based at the Bradford Royal Infirmary, said there are low levels in Bradford and Yorkshire has some of the lowest levels in the UK of the new strain, with less than five per cent of cases being the new strain However, he warned: We should be anticipating if it is more transmissible, that it will take off much quicker. We ve got to be extra, extra cautious. Prof Wright added: We don t know enough about it, it s still early days.