Final plea in bid to stop housing estate being built

Published in the Portsmouth News on Friday 17th February 2012

 

DESPERATE residents gave a last impassioned plea to an inspector not to give the go-ahead to a housing development.

For three days planning inspector Colin Ball has heard evidence in an appeal by Crayfern Homes against Havant Borough Council’s decision to turn down a 92-home estate off Scratchface Lane, Bedhampton.

The council’s planning committee rejected it on the basis that the noise from the A3M would be detrimental to people’s quality of life.

Jeffrey Lane is a trained psychotherapist and his home in Brooklands Road would be next to the proposed site.

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