CONTROVERSIAL plans to turn a famous North Yorkshire country pub into a housing development were withdrawn only hours before planners were to make a decision.
But the plans for the Stonehouse Inn at Thruscross, near Pateley Bridge, in the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, were taken out too late to tell all 125 objectors who travelled to the Ripon meeting of Harrogate Borough Council planners.
Planning officials had expressed concern about the justification of converting the public house in open countryside into two homes and building two detached houses nearby.
They were also worried about losing the pub as a community facility and had recommended the plans be refused.
The pub is empty but had been trading until summer 2002.
It is not yet known if a revised application will be tabled in future.
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