PLANS to build 40 homes on a former private school's field in Colchester have been rejected.
Charity Eastern Counties Educational Trust applied to Colchester Council for permission to build the new estate on land north west of Oxley Parker Drive in Highwoods.
The site used to be the playing fields of Oxley Parker School but has been vacant and unused since the school closed its doors in 1998.
The land is next to Colchester Rugby Club, off Mill Road, which is being revamped in a mixed used development including hundreds of homes as part of the Northern Gateway development.
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Colchester Council's planning officers rejected the proposals as the application failed to provide legal assurances over things like the number of affordable homes and amount of open space.
The land has also been allocated as open space in Colchester Council's Local Plan.
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