Plan - how the estate could have looked PLANS for up to 50 homes on farmland in Great Bentley have been rejected by planners. Huntstowe Land applied for permission to build the homes, along with infrastructure and landscaping, on land west of Heckfords Road. But the outline plans for the nine acre site were refused by planning officers because the site falls outside the settlement development boundary. Great Bentley Parish Council objected to the application, citing the village boundary, the urbanising effect of the development and its impact on schools and doctors. A spokesman for the council said: “This development would have a considerable urbanising impact on the northern entrance to the village and conservation area.