Ceramics company BCT is to challenge Teignbridge Council's refusal to grant planning permission for a 92-home development on land behind its Heathfield factory.

The scheme, turned down in January, would also have included 4,000sq m of business units and a 'village green' designed to protect the rare pennyroyal plant found there.

The application was supported by Bovey Tracey Town Council, but concerns from other quarters included the impact on highways and the loss of land primarily earmarked for employment opportunities.

There were also worries about jeopardising a possible road-to-rail waste transfer site at Heathfield sidings and the proposed homes being 'divorced' from the existing Heathfield settlement by Old Newton Road.

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