Earlier today I spoke at the Wiltshire Council Strategic Planning Committee in Chippenham that was considering the application, by Hills Waste Solutions Limited, to expand the composting facility at Parkgate Farm and make the permission permanent (it is currently temporary). Whilst composting is nominally a good thing, on this occasion it comes with side effects...
Archive for January, 2014
Composting ~ green dilemma
When is doing the right thing, potentially not so good? Perhaps when it adversely affects others? Ponder this, composting is good and so is recycling but what about the adverse effects when its location and or scale is inappropriate? There is a planning application in to expand the composting site at Mopes Lane....
Bradley’s Meadow ~ Public Inquiry
The date for the public inquiry into the application for a further fifty houses on Bradley's Meadow near Moredon Bridge has been set for 12 March 2014 at 10 am at Chippenham.
Bradley’s Meadow ~ stay of execution
Last night the Northern Planning Committee, after representations at the meeting from myself, the Parish Council and our unitary councillor Jacqui Lay, agreed with its officer’s recommendation to refuse the application for 50 houses on Bradley’s Meadow in our parish.
Mud Lane ~ temporarily closed
Not surprisingly, there are several rights of way that are somewhat wet in our parish. What is surprising, though, is that Mud Lane has been officially “temporarily closed” with a Wiltshire Council sign yet several others remain “open”, despite being impassable e.g. the right of way between Bentham Lane and West Marsh Farm. Now why is that? Mud Lane is the right of way that Wiltshire Council had refused to clear for several years and then tried to divert last year. Wiltshire Council lost the appeal and was instructed by […]