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Earl's TV soap upsets ramblers

Conservationists are angry over plans by the Earl of Harewood to allow a television company to build a replica of the set featured in its popular soap opera Emmerdale on his 4,000-acre estate near Leeds.

Yorkshire TV (YTV) has applied for temporary consent to construct a 26- building replica of the set in artificial stone and plywood on a 12-acre site about a mile south of Harewood House, the Queen's cousin's magnificent ancestral home.

Although the site is outside Harewood House's Grade I registered parkland, landscaped by Capability Brown, it is none the less in a Special Landscape Area within the green belt, and protesters, led by the Ramblers' Association, fear the scheme would have ...

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