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Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
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Tom Pegden

Davidsons applies for 120 homes on quiet village lane – having already been refused planning three times

A housing developer is trying for a fourth time to get permission to build 120 homes on fields off a quiet country lane in a Leicestershire village.

Davidsons is seeking outline planning for the homes in Kirkby Road, on the edge of the village of Desford. The main access for the scheme is from a narrow road which runs past the village primary school, a couple of hundred yards away.

Hinckley and Bosworth borough councillors rejected three previous Davidsons applications for homes on the Ashfield Farm site after residents repeatedly objected.

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