PLANNING chiefs are to visit an unauthorised tea room in a former farmhouse before deciding whether locals can carry on enjoying a cuppa there.
More than 600 people have signed a petition supporting the tea room, art gallery, studio and beauty treatment room operating without planning permission at Dingle Farm, Dingle Lane, Appleton – and Warrington planners want to see for themselves.
Appleton Parish Council opposes the development but the petitioners claim it is providing employment for four people and providing a leisure and tourist destination of benefit to the local community.
Robert Bilton Estates Ltd are seeking retrospective planning permission for a change of use from a dwelling to a workshop/artist’s studio and gallery, separate beauty treatment room and tea room with associated parking and a timber pergola to provide cover for an outdoor seating area.
The parish council says Dingle Farm is on a blind bend, Dingle Lane is too narrow and the development will worsen traffic conditions adversely affecting road safety.
Planning officers are recommending the change of use be approved, however.
They say the continued use of the farm as a workshop, studio/gallery, tea room and beauty treatment room is acceptable and is providing a sustainable and appropriate form of development in the Green Belt which would not lead to significant harm to the amenity of nearby residents nor lead to any significant harm to highway safety.
PLANNING chiefs are to visit an unauthorised tea room in a former
farmhouse before deciding whether locals can carry on enjoying a cuppa
there.
Planners to visit tea room
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