The Green in Crakehall Picture: GOOGLE RESIDENTS of a recently completed rural housing development featuring homes with balconies looking onto open countryside have voiced exasperation as planners recommended to approve a scheme which would see their views obliterated. Crakehall villagers said they had been left stunned by Newett Homes’ proposal to build 18 homes close to the grade II listed 17th century Crakehall Water Mill, outside the current development limits of village near Bedale. They said while Hambleton District Council rejected a plan to build 33 homes on the site in 2010 on the grounds that it was unsustainable, less than two years after being sold, the properties the authority had changed its mind.