CONTROVERSIAL plans to build nine houses on the site of a pub have been withdrawn.
Councillors were due to discuss the application to turn The Compasses pub, Great Totham, into homes at a planning committee meeting on Monday.
But to the relief of landlords Shaun Robinson and Jessica Ratnage, the plans were scrapped.
"It still leaves us on tenterhooks that the owner may resubmit the application at some point," said Mr Robinson.
"When he realised the support we had in the community, it must have made him think twice.
"We've had so much help from people in the village and even Camra, who were willing to speak against the proposals."
The pair delivered a petition with more than 250 signatures against the plans to the district council.
"The pub is really important, there's nothing much else here," Mr Robinson added.
"We just have to hope if the owner does resubmit it doesn't involve knocking down our business."
