Bishop's Waltham stables refused permission for worker accommodation (From Hampshire Chronicle)
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Bishop's Waltham stables refused permission for worker accommodation
12:20pm Saturday 18th February 2012 in News
Bishop's Waltham stables refused permission for worker accommodation
A BISHOP’S Waltham stables has been refused permission to keep an employee in an onsite mobile home to tend to horses 24-hours-a-day.
Equestrian business Valley View Stud applied for retrospective permission for a mobile home on its site in Shipcote Lane.
The company has been using the building so an employee can be onsite all night and respond quickly to any problems or emergencies.
Alex King, agent for Valley View Stud, said: “The applicant has invested time and money into the site and its success has generated the need for 24-hour staff presence. The horses need to be monitored to ensure welfare and safety.”
But a council planning committee rejected the plans saying it was not necessary, and there was alternative accommodation within a reasonable distance in Bishop’s Waltham.
A majority of councillors voted six to three against the application at a meeting last Thursday.
