Countryside housing estate plans rejected again

The site of the rural proposed development with green fields by the side of an empty roadImage source, Randall Thorp/Gladman Developments
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The council refused permission for the scheme as it would lead to the "unplanned expansion of a rural village".

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Councillors have rejected plans to build a new housing estate in the Lancashire countryside for the second time in six years.

The 95-home development was proposed for a plot of land off Garstang Road in Broughton.

Preston City Council's planning committee refused permission for the scheme after being told it would lead to the "unplanned expansion of a rural village".

This was the same conclusion reached in April 2019.

In its recent application, Gladman Developments Limited offered to pay nearly £600,000 towards the cost of an estimated 28 extra primary school places, as well as offering 35% of homes on the estate for discounted affordable housing.

But this did not sway planners, who received 31 objections to the proposed development.

Broughton Parish Council chair Pat Hastings told the council that the development did not offer "any community facilities or any other infrastructure for the village".

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