CONTROVERSIAL proposals to build four new family homes in a village farmyard have been approved despite concerns about overdevelopment. Blackburn with Darwen Council Planning Committee granted permission for the scheme in Chapeltown on the West Pennine Moors on Thursday night. The land already had approval for two large homes and the latest application by Mark McBriar had been withdrawn from last month s meeting for further work with council officials. The go-ahead was given despite 17 objections from nearby residents, North Turton Parish Council, and local councillor Colin Rigby. The West Pennine ward Tory said: There are too many properties for the size of the land. This is overdevelopment.”