Decision on stables is put off

A FINAL decision on a long-running battle over plans for stables on a Green Belt site has been put off by planners at Warrington.
They are to visit the site, at the rear of Petersfield Gardens, Culcheth, before deciding if the development can proceed.
Last month, they deferred consideration of the proposals to allow time for further talks between the applicant and objectors.
The scheme involves three stables and a store room together with hard-standing.
Over the last two years, two similar proposals, involving first 10 and later eight, stables have been rejected.
Residents of Petersfield Gardens, Sutton Avenue and Chiltern Road have objected to the scheme, together with nearby Twiss Green Primary School and Culcheth and Glazebury Parish Council has expressed concern.
The residents claim the proposed development would be inappropriate in the Green Belt, that increased traffic would cause danger in a residential area and near to a school, that mud would be deposited on roads and there would increased noise.
They say the buildings would be a “blot on the landscape.”
Planning officers recommend the scheme be approved, however.
They point out that the planned stable block has been re-sited and reduced in size. Only three horses would be accommodated instead of eight and stables would, in any event, be acceptable in the Green Belt and would have no detrimental impact on the character of the area.