HOUSING developers are set to go to the High Court next week in a last ditch bid to win consent for a huge new housing development south of Lancaster.
Countryside Properties want to overturn a planning inspector's recommendation - accepted by the Government - that a proposed 535 new homes should not be built at Whinney Carr Farm.
Residents, backed by the Green Party, fought a six-year battle to block the planned homes, and Green County Cllr Jonathan Sear says: "The unacceptable impact this development would have on local people has already been heard at public inquiries on three occasions. Now the developer is challenging the decision on a legal technicality. The High Court will only hear one side of the story and it will be a travesty if the conclusion is turned on its head."
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