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Jenrick turns down 318-home Sandown racecourse scheme
Housing secretary says damage to green belt outweighs council’s failure to identify land for homes after lobbying from Dominic Raab
Communities secretary Robert Jenrick has turned down controversial proposals to build a hotel and 318 homes on part of Sandown Racecourse in the Surrey green belt.
Jenrick agreed with his planning inspector that the scheme, being promoted by Sandown owner the Jockey Club, was part of the green belt and that proposals for blocks of flats would cause “substantial harm” to the green belt.
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