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Judicial Review Advances on Controversial Castle Cary Housing Development

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 castlecary judicialreview housing. development planning abri community traffic affordablehousing opposition

The battle to halt a disputed housing development in Castle Cary has progressed as efforts to initiate a judicial review move forward. In April 2019, Yarlington Housing Association secured permission on appeal to construct 27 new homes at the Foxes Run site, located off Bridgewater Buildings on Castle Cary’s southwest edge. After a merger in late 2020, Abri replaced Yarlington and inherited the development plans. Residents and local historians have urged Abri to abandon the scheme, citing claims that the land may harbor an unexploded World War II bomb dropped by the Luftwaffe in 1942.