RESIDENTS hope to slam the door on an application to turn a country bridleway into an access road for a factory.
Summer Bridge Doors is applying to expand its site in Anlaby but the bid has prompted a deluge of objections.
In the main, neighbours do not want a bigger factory or the quiet track used by nature lovers to become a busy access road.
Trish Challans, of Sherwood Drive, Anlaby, said: "People who regularly use the lane to walk dogs, or simply have a stroll will not be able to in the future.
"Although pavements will be there it will be like walking down a busy road."
Mrs Challans says she has no objection to the expansion, just the use of the lane and the loss of an old railway embankment she says has now become a home to deer and other wildlife, so it is important to people in the local area.
Ute Storey, of Askew Avenue, Anlaby, agrees the biggest threat is the loss of amenity.
In her letter of objection, she writes: "I am a member of the Anlaby Allotment Association, which will border on to the proposed site.
"If the application goes ahead another piece of green space will disappear, the countryside is slowly eroding around us and it will have a big impact on the wildlife in the area.
"In fact, this area is part of a wildlife corridor and it is also an important feeding line for bats in this area."
Patrick Molloy, of Saxondale, Anlaby, said: "This area is a valuable, well-used communal asset.
"It is a safe environment for local children and adults alike giving access to local wildlife and countryside.
"Springhead Lane is a cul-de-sac, currently used by a minimal number vehicles. If planning permission is approved, the lane would be used by delivery lorries, employees vehicles and others."
The doors firm, with 100 employees, is an important manufacturing success story.
It has two sites but the lease is expiring on its other one in east Hull.
The company says the proposed new building would be landscaped and not have an adverse impact on the local area.
In the face of 40 letters of objection, there has been one letter of support, pointing out the land's former industrial use as a railway embankment.
The report to East Riding Council's Western Area Planning Sub-committee, meeting tomorrow, describes the proposal as economic development within a sustainable urban location.
It also says removal of the embankment would not detract from the local area.
