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Farm fence plan rejected

A MOORLAND sheep farmer's controversial plan to build a half-mile long fence on the North Yorkshire Moors to help shepherd his flock has been turned down.

Farmer Brian Aconley was told his plan for a fence from Esklets to Farndale would present "an unacceptable intrusion" into the landscape.

The plan was refused after Coun Helen Schroeder, chairman of the North York Moors National Park Authority, backed a recommendation by officers to refuse the scheme.

But the authority agreed to set aside £16,000 for the installation of cattle grids and a further £20,000 to help in providing additional shepherding.

The moves came after Coun Herbert Tindall, the authority's vice-chairman, said there were growing worries that people's livelihoods would be damaged, and thousands of acres of heather put at risk, unless flocks were retained on the moors.

Updated: 12:34 Wednesday, June 26, 2002