PLANS for a day-care centre for dogs at Lymm have been thrown out by Warrington planning chiefs.
They have ruled that the proposals at Wet Gate Farm, in Wet Gate Lane, would be inappropriate development in the Green Belt.
A parking area for 15 vehicles and a “dog transportation bus” would have a detrimental impact on the visual openness of the Green Belt and there would a high potential for a noise nuisance for nearby residents.
Lymm Parish Council had opposed the scheme and concerns had also been expressed by borough councillor Bob Barr and a local resident.
The proposal, involving an existing barn, was submitted by Bruce’s Doggy Day Care – a national organisation established in Surrey in 2009, – which describes itself as being like a children’s nursery but for dogs.
It would have aimed to attract dog owners from an area including Warrington, Lymm, Altrincham and Wilmslow.
They argued that the centre would provide a safe, controlled, and purpose-built environment for the care and exercising of dogs, making use of an existing barn on the site.
It would offer dog owners with an alternative to using dog walking services in public areas which experience had shown could be intimidating to other users – particularly horse riders, cyclists and runners.
When full, the centre would have accommodated 70 dogs which would be brought to the site by air-conditioned “doggy buses” or in owners’ cars.
Nearest homes to the site are about 85m away.
But borough council planning officers rejected the scheme.
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If it had been anywhere else outside of super fluffy Lymm it would more than likely got the go ahead.
Was thinking the same.