Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Planning application for 10 more caravans at Smithy Fen Travellers' site in Cottenham rejected - Cambridgeshire

From Cambridge News

Travellers have been refused permission for up to 10 more caravans at Smithy Fen in Cottenham.

The needs of the Wall family did not outweigh the harm caused to the landscape by the five plots in Pine Lane, South Cambridgeshire District Council’s planning committee ruled today.

Members voted unanimously to overturn a recommendation from officers that the “predominantly retrospective” application should be approved on the grounds that the Travellers had nowhere else to go and that children attending local schools needed stability.

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