Planning application stops former Archbishop of Canterbury from selling his home

• The 81-year-old and his spouse Eileen intend to promote £900,000 five-bedroom dwelling
• Property in Newbury, Berkshire, described as having 'expansive southerly view'
• However a speculative software to construct 85 properties in entrance of it has blighted plans 

By Andrew Levy for the Every day Mail

Printed: 20:53 EST, 11 December 2016 | Up to date: 20:58 EST, 11 December 2016

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has attacked a no win, no charge developer whose planning software has stopped him promoting his dwelling

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey has attacked a no win, no charge developer whose planning software has stopped him promoting his dwelling.

The 81-year-old and his spouse Eileen intend to promote their £900,000 five-bedroom dwelling close to Newbury, Berkshire, described as having 'expansive southerly views throughout open countryside' and purchase one thing smaller.

However a speculative software by Gladman Developments to construct 85 properties in entrance of it has blighted their plans.

Lord Carey complained: 'We wish to downsize however… we will't with this inquiry hanging over our heads.'

He provides that the property would 'lower deeply right into a valley of excellent pure magnificence and affect on the ample wildlife'.

He instructed the Sunday Occasions: 'The hostile improvement occurring up and down the nation must be checked out very fastidiously by the authorities.'

Gladman, primarily based in Cheshire, provides agricultural landowners the prospect to extend the worth of their land by 50 or 60 instances by reworking it into improvement websites.

It submits speculative purposes for planning permission on the landowner's behalf and takes 25 per cent of the proceeds when the land is bought on in the event that they win.

David Gladman, 61, mentioned: 'All of the developments for which we get planning permission are sustainable.'

The 81-year-old and his spouse Eileen intend to promote their £900,000 five-bedroom dwelling close to Newbury, Berkshire

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