A PLANNING appeal has been lodged after an application to build five homes in a North Yorkshire village was turned down.

A planning inspector appointed by the Secretary of State will decide on the bid for outline planning permission to build five homes off Stokesley Road on the eastern edge of Hutton Rudby.

The village’s parish council had objected to the application, stating it was not on its preferred list of sites for housing. A steering group, with the support of the parish council, is currently assessing the housing need in the village and says the most requested provision for housing in the village is for affordable housing and five large houses proposed in the plans may not fit the need.

Hambleton District Council received 28 letters of objection to the plans and 17 in support.

The council’s housing officers recommended outline planning permission for the homes be granted as long development didn’t begin before more detailed plans had been submitted on the layout and scale of the proposed homes.

But at the planning meeting, councillors turned down the plans.