The former Plough Inn at Fadmoor Picture: NYMNPA A DECADE-long saga which has seen a North York Moors community battle with an internet tycoon over the future of a historic pub should come to an end, planners have said. The recommendation to approve the conversion of the 239-year-old Plough Inn, at Fadmoor, into four holiday cottages and two local occupancy rental homes comes as the national park authority’s planning officers concluded it would be wrong to continue to block alternative uses of the building. However, as its owner, Peter Wilkinson, who has built a reported £390m fortune after developing Freeserve, the UK’s first free consumer internet services provider, has already appealed to the Secretary of State, the park authority’s decision next week will only have an advisory effect.