ANGRY campaigners say they have been betrayed by Inverclyde Council after developers got the go-ahead to build on greenbelt land in Kilmacolm. Bill Crookston, chair of Kilmacolm Residents Association, said the group fought doggedly to protect the greenbelt over the years and never thought they would end up defeated by their own local authority. He hit out after developers MacTaggart and Mickel succeeded in their bid to build 78 houses at Kilmacolm Meadow, west of Quarry Road, by a vote of 8-4 at a tense full council meeting. Mr Crookston said: The Kilmacolm Residents Association have fought the volume housebuilders for years but never thought that we d be beaten by our own council.