A PLAN to build a bungalow on the edge of the Green Belt at Lymm has outraged nearby residents.
The proposal involves a small parcel 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.
Nineteen nearby residents have lodged objections, along with Lymm Parish Council and local borough councillor Sheila Woodyatt (pictured).
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.
Members of the borough council’s development management committee are to visit the site before reaching a decision.
Outrage over bungalow plan
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If this parcel of land is so sensitive to the maintenance of the local environment and the other listed reasons, why was it not identified for no further development years ago? It would have saved everyone time, money and the distress of repeated bites at the development cherry.
I’m struggling to get a sense of the “OUTRAGE” that the headline has described.
Its NOT on Green belt land, and just nineteen nearby? residents have “lodged objections”. And its a bungalow….surely the prefered option over retail units or three houses, that have been proposed in the past.
It’s the kind of stuff that’s going on all over the Town of Warrington Weekly…
This possibly beats the “Storm breaks over high fence” scandal that hit Lymm a few years ago…
Are Lymm in competition with Croft to see who are the biggest nimbies?
Water voles might be present, sounds familiar.
you’d never get a winner…which ever one won the other would surely object…!!!………(and be outraged in the process)
oh no…… not the water voles……. I can just see 19 Lymm residents donning their wax jackets and trapesing through the countryside; frantically searching for a water vole to stop the development!!