Verdict on latest bid to build in countryside

Councillors have kicked out plans for a new housing estate in the Preston countryside - for exactly the same reason it was first rejected more than six years ago.

- by Paul Faulkner

The 95-home development was proposed for a plot of land off Garstang Road, on the edge of Broughton.

Preston City Council's planning committee refused permission for the scheme after being told by town hall officers that it would lead to the "unplanned expansion of a rural village" - the same conclusion reached in April 2019 after Gladman Developments Limited put forward a similar blueprint the previous year.