"They are building a Retirement Village between our village and the next one, on a hidious scale - bigger than the two villages put together. We are a very small, beautiful village within North Yorkshire and we are a Green Belt area. It contravines practically all planning guidlines, but unfortuanelty it looks like there are higher forces involved."

Who are "they"? How do you know it contravenes planning guidelines?

"I know Retirement solutions are required and I support the idea in principle but it is totally the wrong place for it, we are rural as it gets, it will destroy the rural community that we have, we already have a village pub in our village and one in the next. We all know too well how pubs are disappearing and folk clubs with them."

You support "retirement solutions" so long as they are not in your back yard? If your village and your neighbours' each already support a pub (and a folk club?) then the new development which you say is "bigger than the two villages put together" will not threaten your pubs. In fact they might benefit from extra trade.


"There is so many other reasons that it is wrong but I am not going to list them all, but you get the idea."

I get the idea that you think this will affect the price of your property.