A developer is using Ashfield District Council’s lack of an adopted housing plan to push through 137 homes on greenbelt land. Peveril Homes Ltd has submitted the plans with the homes earmarked for land off Park Lane, Selston, along the eastern boundary of the M1 motorway.
The company says that, because the authority has not adopted a local plan and has failed to meet its five-year housing supply, the plans should be passed on “very special circumstances”.
It comes after the authority pressed forward with plans to remove two major settlements from the draft future housing plan for the area and take out 4,000 homes from its 15-year strategy.
