PLANNING chiefs at Warrington have given the go-ahead for a workshop and car port to be built on Green Belt land at Croft – after a careful look at the site.
Members of the borough council’s development management committee also approved a retrospective application for the site to be changed from open land to a domestic garden.
Earlier in the year they had refused permission for the development but now they have decided it will not have any significant impact on the Green Belt.
The committee was told the applicant, John Hawthorne, had bought the site from a developer when a estate of 26 houses was being built on an adjacent site.
He had converted it to a garden and now sought permission for the car port and workshop to store a caravan and van.
Officers recommended the scheme again be refused – although they admitted the proposal was modest when compared to the adjoin development of 26 houses. But they believed it was inappropriate development in the Green Belt and encroach on adjacent woodland
Councillors decided however that with appropriate conditions the scheme would be acceptable
Green Belt workshop gets the go-ahead
00 Comments
