A BID for 99 homes on Clydebank green belt land could get the final nail in its coffin next week.

West Dunbartonshire Council will decide whether to reject the planning application by developers Taylor Wimpey in the Duntiglennan Fields in Duntocher.

Councillors on the planning committee last month unanimously recommended rejecting the proposal in front of a near unanimous room of 60 residents. A previous community council meeting also voiced unwavering opposition.

Taylor Wimpey argued they hadn’t been given a fair hearing after repeatedly trying to engage with the council before and after their December 23 application.

They relied on the controversial position by the Scottish Government’s reporter to recommend the green belt be used for housing.

But West Dunbartonshire planners said the proposals failed multiple council and national standards and councillors maintained they will fight development of the green belt “forever”.

Council officers found the application to build on the Duntiglennan Hills. failed 14 guidelines and policies and overall had “unacceptable layout and design”.

Councillors even added a seventh reason for rejection to the six originally laid out by planners based on the “perceived traffic congestion” that would result on Farm Road from the development.

At the planning meeting, Provost Douglas McAllister said: “It’s obvious there’s no justification for developing this site. There are more than adequate brown field sites. The community we represent object to this proposal.”

Cllr Denis Agnew agreed and said he was “incensed” the local opinions against building on green belt were being ignored.

He said: “We have to grab the nettle here - we have to protect it forever.”

And committee chairman Cllr Lawrence O’Neill said: “We will continue as part of that process that the green belt will be protected forever.

“If that’s the only legacy I leave as chair, I can look to my sons and grandsons and say, ‘There’s nothing there’.”

Cllr Patrick McGlinchey said: “Green belt sites are preferred because of profit. Our priority is not private sector profit, it’s the development of Clydebank. Brown field first has to be our priority. We would invite Taylor Wimpey to be part of Queens Quay.”

And Cllr Jonathan McColl said all councillors were united on the issue.

“It’s completely inappropriate for a housing developer and it’s simply not necessary,” he said. “The whole application is not suitable.”