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Plans to build a single new property within a row of existing homes in rural South Ribble have been rejected.

The proposal would have seen a detached house erected on Marsh Lane in Longton - a development which the applicant claimed would be “entirely appropriate" for the locality.

But planning officers at South Ribble Borough Borough Council have ruled that the “very special circumstances” required to permit building in the green belt had not been proved.

Country lane house plan rejected for South Ribble village