Truce called in stables battle?

PEACE has broken out in the long-running battle over plans for stables at the rear of Petersfield Gardens, Culcheth – at least for the time being
A new application for permission to build three stables and a store room, together with hardstanding, on the Green Belt site was withdrawn by the applicant when it came before the borough’s planning committee, to allow time for further talks with objectors.
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 are recommending 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. Stables would be acceptable in the Green Belt and would have no detrimental impact on the character of the area.