Barton Village, where plans to replace a farm with housing have been rejected again A PLAN to bulldoze a particularly smelly farm at the heart of a village and replace it with housing has been rejected after a debate re-erupted over whether rural residents and agriculture should be separated. Richmondshire District Council’s third refusal of a proposed development at The Ashes Farm in Barton, a village which was named after a barley farm, came more than two years after a councillor sparked uproar while speaking in favour of developing homes there, claiming “farms should not be in villages any longer”.
Barton Village, where plans to replace a farm with housing have been rejected again A PLAN to bulldoze a particularly smelly farm at the heart of a village and replace it with housing has been rejected after a debate re-erupted over whether rural residents and agriculture should be separated. Richmondshire District Council’s third refusal of a proposed development at The Ashes Farm in Barton, a village which was named after a barley farm, came more than two years after a councillor sparked uproar while speaking in favour of developing homes there, claiming “farms should not be in villages any longer”.
Barton, with the development site at The Ashes at the top RESIDENTS of a village which can be traced back to before William the Conqueror’s Domesday Book are divided over its future shape after developers resurrected plans to transform the settlement’s heart. More than two years after Richmondshire District Council’s planning committee rejected plans to develop The Ashes Farm in Barton, between Richmond and Darlington, Lawsons Farms has submitted a proposal to demolish the farmstead and haulage depot, and replace them with 32 homes and public open space. Planners said the previous scheme, also on the north side of Silver Street, had public benefits, but would lead to too many houses being built in the village as another similar scheme was approved.