SPECULATIVE proposals for two large housing developments in the Forest of Dean have both been unanimously rejected by planners.

The two schemes were submitted by Gladman Developments which proposed to build 200 homes on land at Berry Hill and 125 dwellings in Tutshill.

However it is expected that the developer will appeal both these Forest of Dean planners' decisions.

Forest MP Mark Harper has already stepped in to have the proposed Allaston Road development examined by Eric Pickles MP, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to make the final decision on the development instead of a planning inspector.

Mr Harper has vowed that he would take the same action again elsewhere in the Forest of Dean if a development fall outside the District Council's settlement boundary.

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