The scheme on the edge of the upmarket town of Holt on land north of Valley Lane has been fiercely opposed by more than 100 people.

But at a North Norfolk District Council meeting today (Thursday, February 19), it was approved as a large crowd from the town looked on.

Objectors complained the properties, which will include seven affordable homes, could harm wildlife living on the grassland, which is near Spout Hills nature reserve.

A map of where the homes could be built near........

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