A Government planning inspector has thrown out plans to put up 63 homes next to a golf club on the edge of Market Bosworth, in west Leicestershire.
Richborough Estates wanted to develop two fields near Kyngs Golf and Country Club, on the outskirts of the market town which is famous for its proximity to the Battle of Bosworth where Richard III was defeated.
Hinckley and Bosworth councillors initially refused the plans last May, over concerns they would spoil an area of open countryside.