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A UK local council has blocked plans to reportedly build the largest Amazon warehouse in the country.
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council voted down plans to build a 58,000sq metre logistics warehouse near Junction 7 of the M3 on the grounds that it would destroy local biodiversity, and that there was “no overriding public need.”
The Development Control Committee voted 9-2 against the greenfield development, with one abstention.
The move was a U-turn, that followed initial agreement with the plan, after more than ...
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