Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has used his planning powers to refuse consent for a 500-home Broadway Malyan masterplanned development in Yorkshire – on the final day before parliament was dissolved.

The scheme, earmarked for a 25ha green-belt site on the edge of Burley-in-Wharfedale, near Ilkley, had the support of Bradford council and was recommended for approval by a planning inspector following a public inquiry earlier this year.

But Jenrick overruled both the local authority and the inspector to block the outline scheme, commissioned by developer CEG, which would also have delivered a new primary school for the area and made a feature of the site of a Roman temporary camp uncovered during preparatory work.

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