Leeds City Council has rubber-stamped its rules for where tens of thousands of houses should be built across the city over the next decade.

Leeds’s controversial Site Allocations Plan was subject to a public inquiry last year.

Following the publication of the inspector’s report, suggesting 32 greenfield sites should be removed, councillors have now adopted the plans at a full meeting of Leeds City Council.

The ruling Labour group told the meeting that the SAP will help protect green field sites against unsuitable planning applications.

But opposition councillors claimed there were still too many greenfield sites in the plan.

Sites allocated in the new SAP in Aireborough include New Birks Farm, Ings Grove, Guiseley, 160 units; Wills Gill, Guiseley,133 units; Hollins Hill and Hawkstone Avenue, Guiseley, 80 units; Land at Silverdale Avenue, Guiseley, 32 units; Kirkland House, Queensway, Yeadon, 17 units; Land at Victoria Avenue,102 units.

This leaves a total of nine new proposed sites with 552 homes.

Of these, the sites at Wills Gill, Silverdale Avenue, Swaine Hill Terrace, Larkfield Drive and Miry Lane were all considered suitable for older people’s housing. The SAP also considered a 0.11-hectare site off Town Street, Yeadon to be suitable for travelling showpeople.