Summary:
The Conservatives have won a second bid to build a housing estate in a Somerset village.

Full article:
By . Mail On Sunday Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 20:58 EST, 15 March 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 20:58 EST, 15 March 2014 . Jacob Rees-Mogg MP opposed his mother's building plans . The titled mother of a Tory MP has lost her bid to build a housing . estate in the middle of the family’s ancestral seat after a wave of . objections – including from her own son. Lady Gillian Rees-Mogg had . planned to build 19 houses in the village of Hinton Blewett, Somerset, . which dates back to the Domesday Book. Her son and local MP, Jacob . Rees-Mogg, opposed the development, which would have increased the . population by a quarter. It was close to the Mendip Hills Area of . Natural Beauty and only 40 yards from a conservation area. Resident . David Duckett said: ‘Villagers are relieved.This would have completely . changed the character of Hinton Blewett. 'It’s important to note we are . not nimbys – we want development in our backyards, just not our front . gardens. 'The scale and location were just wrong.’ Todd Foreman, Labour’s candidate for North East Somerset, said: ‘This is a victory for common sense.’ North East Somerset MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, centre, with his late father Lord Rees-Mogg and his mother Lady Gillian Rees-Mogg .