COMMUNITY groups in Otley have reacted strongly to this week’s hybrid planning application for a huge development to the East of Otley for a mixed use site of 700 houses and a major new link road. The community groups, the East of Otley Action Group and Wildlife Friendly Otley, which represent the wider community, the majority of whom are against the development and loss of this important local green space and wildlife habitat, issued a statement in response to the publication of the hybrid planning application by the Otley East Consortium. They say the plan by the Otley East Consortium involving Persimmon and Leeds City Council has totally ignored most of the submissions made by the groups and thousands of residents to a preliminary consultation only four moths ago in January.