A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build a bungalow on the edge of the Green Belt at Lymm is set to come back before planning bosses at Warrington.
The proposal involves a small piece of land off Longbutt Lane at its junction with Grammar School Road – and over a period of more than 40 years five previous planning applications have been thrown out.
The most recent, two years ago, was for three affordable dwellings and went to an appeal before being finally refused.
Other previous schemes have involved two retail units and a detached house with garage.
Members of the borough’s development management committee inspected the site only a few days ago as a result of the latest application.
In recent years, the site has lain unused but at one time horses were grazed on it
Nineteen nearby residents have lodged objections, along with Lymm Parish Council and local borough councillor Sheila Woodyatt.
She said: “The site is totally unsuitable for development. It is a locally very sensitive site and any development would compromise the openness of the adjacent, very precious green belt.
“Longbutt Lane is a substandard highway and nut suitable for additional traffic.”
The parish council say the development would have an adverse impact on a safe route to local schools.”
The borough council’s nature conservation officer says no ecological assessment has been provided. A brook runs alongside the site where protected water voles might be present.
A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build a bungalow on the edge of the Green Belt
at Lymm is set to come back before planning bosses at Warrington.
Green belt bungalow rumpus
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Previously there was “Outrage ” over this bungalow plan…..
Now there is “rumpus” we’ve also had “Storms” and “anger”…..what kind of place is Lymm….?
they should ditch the plans for a bungalow and build an Anger Management centre instead…………
Gary’s been using his thesaurus 🙂
Purely coincidental that this plot happens to be right on Cllr Woodyatt’s doorstep, of course. If it’s “on the edge of the Green Belt” then it’s not IN the Green Belt, and the owners should be allowed to develop it. The remote possibility that there might be the odd small rat in a stream nearby is a ridiculous (and overused!) reason to trot out for objecting.
Those blooming voles ‘may be’ everywhere there is a planning application.
“Longbutt Lane is a substandard highway and nut suitable for additional traffic.”…. so the council are failing to maintain the towns roads and using their poor state as an excuse to refuse planning permission for a bungalow? How many extra cars is one bungalow likely to produce anyway???