A campaigner has said she is "very happy" after the council decided to revoke planning consent for an Amazon warehouse.

Councillors approved plans to build a warehouse, thought to be occupied by Amazon, near Junction 7 of the M3, but refused outline plans for the wider development including three further units.

But Dummer Parish Council wrote to the borough council back in April challenging the legality of the decision, based on what it considers to be an error in the information given to the committee about how visible the development would be from the village.

Last week, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council agreed to revoke the planning consent and re-run the meeting to decide again on the plans.

Now, a campaigner against the proposals is pleased the decision will be revisited.

Christine Northam set up the Clean Air Green Environment (CAGE) group to oppose the Basingstoke Gateway proposals shortly after they were revealed by The Gazette last summer.

Speaking to The Gazette, she said about the decision: "We are very happy that the council has decided to do this.

"They have said that they want to make sure that their own precedents and processes are as robust as they should be. We think that is a very good thing. We are looking at the next steps forward."

Referring to the reason why DPC decided to challenge the decision, Christine added: "That was certainly one thing. There are other things too.

"This is not about Dummer taking care of itself. We want to take a broad look at it and that is what we are now doing."

CAGE had previously said that the traffic, up to 750 heavy goods vehicles and one thousand cars, vans and trucks, would cause traffic and pollution issues.

Also reacting to the news was Cllr Paul Harvey, one of the councillors on the committee which made the decisions back in April.

He told The Gazette: "Clearly the council had reason that if it didn't bring it back the decision was unsound. That is fine in terms of a process.

"We will hear the application when it comes back to the committee.

"Obviously the council has got various bits of the decision that it will want to be reviewed. We will come to a view as a committee with all of that presented to us."

The latest development means that, unless the council receives notification from the Secretary of State that he is to determine the planning application, it will be re-determined by the Development Control committee later this year.

Planning permission was not granted after the decision in April as the government’s Planning Case Work Unit is still considering a request from some of the region's MPs to the Secretary of State to call-in the application. While this is under consideration a decision notice cannot be issued.

A spokesperson for Newlands, developer of the project, refused to comment.