The Joseph Rowntree Trust (JRHT) formed a partnership with property developer North Star to build 70 homes on a 2.73 plot of green belt land near Poppleton on the D Trail nursery site.
But today a spokesperson for the trust said they have chosen to withdraw the request to City of York Council for planning permission to build new homes on site.
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