Foster & Partners-designed proposals for a winery in Kent are set to be decided by a planning inspector after councillors went against officers’ recommendations and rejected the scheme.

The scheme for Vinyeyard Farms would have delivered a 15,912sq m facility at a farm near the village of Cuxton, where vines are being planted on a 485ha farm.

It would have included a visitor centre and café, fermenting space, a barrel room, a maturing cellar and an energy centre that would have created biogas from grape skins.

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