Barton Village, where plans to replace a farm with housing have been rejected again A PLAN to bulldoze a particularly smelly farm at the heart of a village and replace it with housing has been rejected after a debate re-erupted over whether rural residents and agriculture should be separated. Richmondshire District Council’s third refusal of a proposed development at The Ashes Farm in Barton, a village which was named after a barley farm, came more than two years after a councillor sparked uproar while speaking in favour of developing homes there, claiming “farms should not be in villages any longer”.