Agents for retail giant Amazon were liaising with council officers in Kirklees to divert a footpath cutting across the proposed site 12 months before the controversial scheme was made public.
Plans to increase Kirklees councillors’ pay by almost a third have been branded “outrageous” by a leading Liberal Democrat peer who says the huge pay hike cannot be justified when people are struggling with the cost of living crisis.
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Retail giant Amazon has been urged to drop its controversial plan to build a huge fulfilment centre close to the M62 in Scholes near Cleckheaton and clear the way for “a more suitable” scheme.