DREWSTEIGNTON Parish Council has voted to object to a ‘speculative’ application to build a farm shop serving tourists beside the A30 at Whiddon Down after hearing objections from a packed room of local people.

There was standing room only at Whiddon Down Village Hall last night, Wednesday, as residents came to make their feelings known.

Applicant Jack Mann told the audience and councillors that he would be realising his long-held ‘passion and dream’ by opening a farm shop on the site to the north of the A30 at Whiddon Down.

However, resident David Campbell said: ‘This is not a farm shop, this is a services. There is no link to a farm.’

The application will be decided by West Devon Borough Council.

See next Thursday’s Okehampton Times for the full story.