Mid Beds District Council planning officials have recommended that the application to build a Center Parcs holiday village in Woburn, Bedfordshire, be turned down.

The planners said the village would be inappropriate in the south Bedfordshire Green Belt “because of the harm to the open countryside, harm to the visual amenity of the Green Belt and because the encroachment of such a development into the Green Belt could create a precedent which would further threaten the local countryside.”

At the council’s development control meeting on 5 July, councillors will decide whether or not to take the planning officers’ recommendation.

The council has received 1,029 signatures and 172 letters objecting to the scheme and just eight letters in support.

The £160m development has been the subject of consultations for more than a year. Details: www.midbeds.gov.uk