Plans for 27 new bungalows for older people to be built in a field at Hest Bank have been rejected.
Councillors voted to refuse permission for the new housing scheme on green belt land near Sea View Drive and Lancaster Canal.
The scheme would "encroach on the countryside" and have a "detrimental impact on the landscape", said a council planning report.
The plans were for 27 specialist bungalows for older people, with detached garage and associated access, internal roads, infrastructure, open space, landscaping and parking.
The scheme was for a mix of one, two and three bedroom detached and semi-detached homes.
The report said there had been 32 objections to the proposals, based on the potential loss of Green Belt land, worries over extra traffic and access to Sea View Drive already being difficult, the presence of great crested newts in most gardens on the road and because the sewerage system was at capacity.
Slyne-with-Hest Parish Council also objected, saying there was no evidence that more housing was needed in the area.
A very small part of the site at the northern end is also identified as being at a high risk from surface water flooding.
The land had been allocated for housing in the 'Neighbourhood Plan' blueprint for the area.
But councillors were told at the meeting that the plan wouldn't go out to referendum until February 23.
There were several benefits of the scheme highlighted in the report, including Lancaster City Council’s longstanding support for specialist bungalows on the site, that Slyne-with-Hest is a sustainable settlement and the site will help to meet identified strategic housing needs up to 2031, and the health and wellbeing benefits of age-restricted specialist bungalows for older people.
But council planners said the new housing should not get the go-ahead for several reasons including that it was "inappropriate development within the Green Belt", "would result in the loss of an open field that provides an attractive setting to this part of the Lancaster Canal", "the proposed access and internal arrangements would fail to provide an acceptable safe and suitable access to serve the development" and "the lack of the submission of a drainage strategy".
The members of the committee, a group of elected councillors, agreed, voting unanimously to reject the plans at a meeting held at Morecambe Town Hall on Monday.
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