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Article: Keep off our fields, developers told
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- Gloucestershire Echo, The
- Article date:
- October 30, 2008
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Campaigners have launched their latest bid to stop fields on the
edge of Cheltenham being turned into a housing development.
About 30 people waved banners outside Tewkesbury Borough
Council's offices, before yesterday's inquiry into plans to build
360 houses west of Farm Lane.
Although the site is in the parish of Shurdington, people in
Leckhampton are campaigning to protect it.
Members of the Leckhampton Green Land Action Group (LEGLAG) are
opposed to the plans, submitted last year by David Wilson Homes and
Martin Dawn plc.
The application would have been refused by the council, but it
failed to make its decision within the statutory period and the
developers went to appeal.
Planning ...