Yapton loses fight to halt housing on industrial estate

Residents and councillors have lost their fight to prevent housing replacing jobs in Yapton.

A planning inspector this weekapproved proposals for 50 homes to be built on Yapton Industrial Estate in Bilsham Road.

Ms Jill Kingaby said the site should be considered favourably for housing, though it was in the countryside and outside Yapton's development boundary.

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