City councillors have delayed a decision to rezone land for housing.
It's currently been set aside for an Eastern Bypass - but in 21 years since being approved, it's never been built.
The space is expected to allow for over three-thousand homes, with one of the largest sites in East Wall.
Local rep Catherine Stocker was against the idea for now:
"We have absolutely no guarantee that the residential land that will happen on that land will be appropriate to surrounding, we have no guarantee that the residential development that will happen on that land will not be co-housing, will not be student housing out of the budget of any student I've ever met
"We have no oversight whatsoever", she claimed.
