PATIENCE is wearing thin in Bradford on Avon over the five-year delay on the development of Kingston Mill.

On Tuesday town councillors resolved to write to developer Taylor Woodrow, saying they should be kept abreast of plans for the former Avon Rubber factory site, and formed a sub- committee to keep a closer eye on the development.

Taylor Woodrow withdrew its third set of plans for the site in July.

Planning committee chairman Jocelyn Feilding said: "We have been left out of the consultation loop and this whole process has gone on far too long."

The most recent set of plans included building 157 homes on the site but councillors this week argued the case for affordable housing there and the space to develop businesses that would bring wealth to Bradford.

Mayor Vicky Landell Mills said: "We have to look at this derelict site every day and we just want to know what their intentions are."

Bradford on Avon Development Trust was set up three years ago with the aim of looking at what sort of development would be best for the community at Kingston Mill.

Trust chairman Gerald Milward Oliver said: "At first we had a lot of constructive meetings with Taylor Woodrow and put them in touch with people who were eager to invest there but recently we have heard nothing.

"There are local companies we know want space there and are happy to wait but they will not wait forever.

"I am worried people will be worn down by the process until they just say yes to any sort of development but this site is important for their grandchildren and great grandchildren and we must get it right."

Emma Jones, spokesman for Bryant Homes, Taylor Woodrow's parent company, said: "We are looking at tweaking bits of the plans and should know more next week when we will have a meeting to decide what the way forward is."