A local authority will be mounting a legal challenge against the decision to allow a large 270-home community to be built just south of Newbury. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council has confirmed that it has been given permission to proceed with a statutory review of the Planning Inspectorate’s controversial decision to allow the Watermill Bridge appeal. The Watermill Bridge development – plans for which were put forward by Baughurst-based housing developer Bewley Homes – would be located just south of the county border in Hampshire, on a patch of land between the A34 and Andover Road. A Basi…
