MULTI-million-pound plans to transform a waterfront site in the New Forest are to be thrown out, the Daily Echo can reveal.
District councillors are being recommended to reject an application to build more than 300 homes and a 100-bed hotel on the former Webbs chicken factory site at Lymington.
Planning officers are putting forward eight reasons for refusing the scheme, including fears that the proposed development would create a huge amount of traffic.
Other objections include a lack of employment provision on the site and the absence of a flood defence scheme. The land, which overlooks the Lymington River, has stood idle since the Webbs plant closed three years ago with the loss of 500 jobs.
Earlier this year Paxton Holdings published their plans to redevelop the site.
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