The deeply controversial plan to build thousands of homes on Nottinghamshire greenbelt has been scrapped. A plan to build 3,000 homes on green belt land at Whyburn Farm in Hucknall as part of Ashfield District Council's Draft Local Plan will be discarded after nearly a year of backlash from locals.
The proposal had previously sparked a row between the council and Government over who was to blame, with the ruling Ashfield Independents criticising high housing targets and a lack of clarity on the importance of green belt land. The Draft Local Plan, which sets out where 8,226 homes will be built between now and 2038, had been indefinitely paused by the council over the issue of Whyburn Farm.
The council will be moving forward to the next stage of their plan in September, where Whyburn Farm is set to be formally withdrawn from the plan that will be sent in to the Government. Campaigners had mobilised in large numbers to oppose the plan, calling on their council to "listen to the people" and take the area out of the Draft Local Plan.
