COUNCILLORS have thrown out plans to build 267 houses on almost 30 acres of farmland at Hunsworth Lane in Cleckheaton. The scheme by Harron Homes was refused by a tight 4-3 vote at Kirklees Council’s Strategic Planning Committee today. However the same meeting saw more than 100 new homes approved for 11 acres of land close to the M62 motorway off Whitechapel Road in Cleckheaton. Conservatives and Lib Dems raised concerns about the layout of the Hunsworth proposal, the impact on local roads, flooding and the failure to find a mineshaft that exists somewhere on the land. That led to worries that future homes built on the land could suffer from subsidence, with owners left to “pick up the pieces”.