Controversial development withdrawn to delight of campaigners
Campaigners who rallied to fight off plans for 97 homes to be built on an area of much-loved open space and woodland are celebrating after the proposals were withdrawn.
The development put forward for the land known as Damson Wood Walk in Market Drayton had sparked more than 100 objections and led residents to form a protest group to oppose the scheme.
Landowner the Healey Estate formally withdrew the planning application on Thursday. Now residents are looking at whether the land could be bought for the community.
Elliott Powell, who co-founded the campaign group when the plans were first put forward last year, said he had not stopped smiling.
He praised the efforts of all those who got behind the cause and added their voices to the mounting objections, hailing it a win for people power.
