AN ATTEMPT to save two fields in Brecon from future development has been halted by a High Court ruling.

Powys County Council's planning committee was due to decide whether the fields, north of Camden Crescent and known locally as Cae Prior, should be given village green status at a two day meeting on Wednesday, April 16.

Residents claim the fields have been used for more than 20 years for recreational activities such as dog-walking, picnicking and tobogganing during the winter, but this is contested by the landowner Adelaide Fellowes.

But Mrs Fellowes was last week granted an injunction stopping the meeting until a judicial review is carried out to decide whether the village green application should be heard by an independent planning inspector, rather than the council's own members.

Village green status would prevent any development on the land, which was earmarked as a site suitable for up to 38 new homes in Brecon Beacons National Park's planning policy, the Local Development Plan, adopted in December.

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