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A developer needs to knock down the Redbeck Motel in Crofton to make method for the brand new properties.
Forty folks have already objected to the plan because the utility appeared on-line on Tuesday (Jan 30).
But in 2016 Royal Mail employee Phil Chapman could not consider his eyes when he noticed this cat like creature roaming whereas staying on the motel.
Mr Chapman, then 48, captured the animal, believed to be an enormous cat, on digital camera, because it was prowling by close by fields.
He mentioned it emerged from the bushes at round 8pm
Mr Chapman, from North Yorkshire, mentioned: “I was on the phone to a friend looking out of the window at the fields, watching the rabbits, and this big cat just came through the hedgerow.
“It was just casually walking across the field.
“It’s clearly not a domestic cat.”
He added: “Whereas normally these things are a case of blink and it’s gone, this was in no rush to get across the field.”
Mr Chapman mentioned the animal regarded much like a a panther.
It shouldn’t be the primary time a “big cat” has been noticed within the district.
There have been a number of reported sightings of the ‘Beast Oo Ossett’, which hit nationwide headlines in 2000.
Observers likened it to an enormous black Irish wolfhound.
Three years later there was a report of a giant black cat stalking the village of Wintersett.
There have been additionally sightings of a panther or puma-like beast roaming between Alverthorpe and Ossett in 2006.
More not too long ago, in November 2022, Jeff Johnson, from Normanton, was heading out for a run, driving close to Heath Common when he filmed what seemed to be an enormous cat.
It started a string of up to date and historic experiences of huge cat sightings within the Wakefield district and throughout West Yorkshire.
Locations included Flanshaw, Welbeck landfill website, Middleton Woods in south Leeds and Littletown FC in Cleckheaton.