CAMPAIGNERS are hoping residents will turn out in force next week to hear about alternative housing plans for Otley.

Campaign group ODD is staging an exhibition and public meeting at the Methodist Church on Monday, that will include sustainable development proposals for the town.

Those ideas were put together by a team of architectural students who were asked to focus on finding new uses for Otley’s brownfield – previously developed – sites.

Several of the town’s green fields have been targeted for housing under the Local Development Framework being drawn up by Leeds City Council, which would see more than 1,100 new homes built over the next 15 years.

ODD says such a scale of development, which would increase the town’s size by a fifth, would be unsustainable and is lobbying the council to alter the plans.

The group presented a 2,227-signature petition and a letter to Leeds earlier this year.

Monday’s exhibition opens in the Methodist Church’s foyer at 7.15pm, with the public meeting beginning at 7.45pm.