RESIDENTS have won a long-running planning battle with a recycling firm which wanted to extend its operating hours.
Borough planning chiefs put off making a decision on several occasions before rejecting an application by ADS Recycling, of Camsley Lane, Lymm.
The company was seeking a lawful development certificate to allow longer working hours on the grounds that planning conditions had been breached continuously for more than 10 years and were, therefore, unenforceable.
Earlier this year the company made a similar application and produced signed witness statements to support their application.
But a statement signed by 35 nearby residents disputed the claim, and councillors decided to support the residents.
They said the onus of proof lay with the company and, on the balance of probabilities, the application should be refused because the residents’ statements carried as much weight as those of the applicant.
RESIDENTS have won a long-running planning battle with a recycling firm which wanted to extend its operating hours.
Residents win planning battle
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Well done to the residents! It’s not easy to have WBC reject a planning application and this time you have won. Well done!!!