Fresh plans to build 14 new homes on the edge of Ashburton should be refused, district planners said this week.

The site at Pitley Lane, Dolbeare, has been the subject of previous unsuccessful applications, one in 2005 for six self-build houses and the most recent in October 2008 when councillors voted no to a plan for 14 homes, six of them affordable.

That was despite the scheme having the support of the town council and there being 68 families on the housing register.

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