A LEADING Forest of Dean councillor has ripped into claims made by the Conservative group on the district council on the Five Acres development saga in Berry Hill.

Cllr Paul Hiett, one of the two joint deputy leaders on the authority, hit back at the claims in last week’s Forester that the Conservatives had ‘a plan for the Five Acres site in 2017’, which was the former home of the Gloucestershire College there.

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