CONTROVERSIAL plans to build 41 apartments on a former care home site have been blocked by councillors.
A planning committee meeting yesterday refused the application to redevelop the vacant Nessfield care home, in Nunthorpe.
Redcar and Cleveland Council was told that a 589-name petition had been submitted in opposition.
Councillor Peter Spencer, chairman of the committee, said: "It was a majority decision and refused because of the scale, height and form of the plans."
Key objections in council documents include concerns over environmental damage, mature trees to be felled, and increased traffic.
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