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Campaigners have celebrated after councillors rejected plans to build hundreds of homes on the southern edge of Bath. Bath and North East Somerset Council spent three and a half hours debating plans to build 290 homes next to Odd Down Park & Ride- 40% of which would have been affordable. The council's planning committee voted seven to one to refuse planning permission for the Hignett Family Trust's plans.
Five years on from saving the Packhorse Inn, Somserset villagers have won a second war against developers wanting to build 300 homes on a beauty spot.
A decision on nearly 300 properties, which locals have objected to, will be made on 15 November.
EXCLUSIVE: Surrey villagers are fighting housing on a stretch of former greenbelt. They are one of a number of local armies fighting developers.
EXCLUSIVE: Five years on from saving the Packhorse Inn, Somserset villagers are waging a new war against developers wanting to build 300 homes on a beauty spot.