Error 10327 confusion

I made some changes to it, it is slightly neater now but now it won't compile because it is expecting a bracket or something...error 10500

library ieee;
use ieee.std_logic_1164.all;
use ieee.numeric_std.all;
entity counter is
	generic
	(
	startnum : natural := 0;
	N : natural := 16
	);
	port
	( 
		--Inputs
		EN		:	in std_logic;
		synchr	:	in std_logic;
		asyncr	:	in std_logic;
		dir	:	in	std_logic;			--0 for count down 1 for count up.
		clk	: in std_logic;
		--Outputs
		Y	:	out natural range startnum to n-1
	);
end entity;
architecture counter_v1 of counter is
signal cntconst	:	integer;
begin
process (dir)				--dir in sensitivity list as when this changes we want this process to run.
begin
if (dir = '0') then
	cntconst <= -1; 				--this will count down when added onto to the counter value
end if;
if (dir = '1') then
	cntconst <= 1;
end if;
end process;
process (asyncr, clk)
begin
    if(asyncr = '1') then
        y < = 0;
    elsif(rising_edge(clk)) then
        if(en = '1') then
            if(dir = '1') then
                if(y < y'high) then
                    y < = y + 1;
                end if;
            else
                if(y > y'low) then
                    y <= y - 1;
                end if;
            end if;
        end if;
    end if;
end process;
end counter_v1;