A RURAL community's hopes of seeing homes take the place of a busy goods storage and distribution business have been dashed, at least for the time being.
A plan to build 17 houses on land at Grove Farm, Drayton, has been refused because of rules governing the Green Belt and its size.
Chaddesley Corbett Parish Council was said to have given in principle support to the application before Wyre Forest District Council planning (development control) committee .
A report sympathised with local feeling that the present R and J B Higgs Ltd business generating up to 50 lorry movements a day was inappropriate in the area. But officers said developments on such a scale should be considered by the Wyre Forest District Plan Review process.
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