AN APPEAL has been filed against the Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council’s decision to reject the planning application to build a Lidl warehouse at Oakdown Farm in Dummer.

Newlands, the developer behind the massive warehouse scheme on the edge of Basingstoke, has appealed against the council's decision to throw out the plans.

Their plan was to build four warehouses near Junction 7 of the M3 as a distribution hub for retailer chain Lidl.

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The council’s development control committee refused the application last month based on the detrimental impact of the proposed development on the character and visual amenity of the landscape, including views across, to, within and out of settlements, and failure to mitigate these.

This was the second time the council refused the application by Newlands Developments to build the warehouse.

In October last year, members of the council’s development control committee had refused Newlands’ previous application - understood to be earmarked for Amazon.

Although they had filed an appeal against the decision against Amazon plan, Newlands withdrew it later and submitted a revised planning application to the council – this time for Lidl.

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The amended application was 65 per cent smaller than the previous application on floor space - down from 271,000 square metres to 101,000 square metres.

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