The Government has called a council’s decision to lodge a review into an appeal decision which will see 270 homes built just south of Newbury “a barely disguised attack”. Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council confirmed last week that it would be attempting to lodge a statutory review into the appeal decision which will allow the large residential development to be constructed. The 270-home development in question, Watermill Bridge, would be located just south of the county border in Hampshire, on a patch of land between the A34 and Andover Road. A letter sent by a Government solicitor on behal…
