Final decision in stables battle?

A LONG-running planning battle over proposals for stables on Green Belt land comes before planners at Warrington tonight – hopefully for a final decision.
Members of the borough council’s planning committee have twice visited the site at Petersfield Gardens, Culcheth.
They have also deferred the scheme to allow talks with objectors.
Officers are recommending the scheme be approved, but there has been opposition from nearby residents, Culcheth and Glazebury Parish Council and from Twiss Green Primary School.
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 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 point out 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.