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Mar 2022
Flaxby parish council calls for government to reject eco-homes
Parish councillors in Flaxby have called on the government to refuse a proposal for a nine-home eco-development in the village.
Holmes Planning Ltd has appealed a decision by Harrogate Borough Council to refuse the development off York Road.
It would have seen houses built to environmental standards and include solar panels, air-source heat pumps and super-tight insulation. The houses were planned to be custom built.
Following refusal by the authority, the developer took the decision to the government’s Planning Inspectorate.
However, in a letter to the government, Goldsborough and Flaxby Parish Council said the previous reasons for refusal still stand.
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It added that a lack of custom build homes in the district was “simply not enough of a justification to permit the building of nine individual self-build houses on the land in question”.
The letter said:
But, in documents submitted for the challenge, the developer argued that there were not enough custom build developments in the district.
It said:
A government planning inspector will make a decision on the plan at a later date.
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