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Search the Public Notice PortalPlans for four new homes have been turned down because they would have led to the loss of countryside.
Fenland Council has refused proposals to develop land at Gorefield, near Wisbech.
It said the site, a strip of land behind existing properties on Cattle Dyke, was outside of the existing settlement.
Its refusal notice adds: "The development proposal would result in an incursion into the rural countryside rather than small scale residential infilling causing unwarranted harm to the rural character and linear form of development of the area."
Loraine Walker applied for permission in principle to develop the site, where similar plans were turned down in 2023.
But neighbours objected on the council's planning portal, with one whose property backs onto the site saying: "This would significantly increase overlooking into our rear garden and rear-facing rooms, resulting in a substantial loss of privacy for my family. Loss of outlook and rural character."
Another branded the plans "backland development", which would lead to "irreversible loss of undeveloped land".
The site, which is currently a meadow, was previously an orchard.
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