One thing that did come up in the previous application was that, since the existing use was a railway siding, it could re-open as a railway siding tomorrow. Network Rail wouldn't need any permission for that.
With the Waste Transfer station the thing that triggered the planning appplication was the building of the shed. That application then triggered all kinds of other assessments; traffic, environmental, acoustic, odour etc.
When it came to the inquiry the only real reason for refusal was the visual impact of the shed on the Conservation Area, and short of building a neo-classical Georgian shed there's no obvious way around that. Unless....
You don't have a shed at all.
Now I'm sure there are still all kinds of regulations that would need to be met, so it's probably far from straightforward. But it was the building that triggered the planning application, not the operation. If they can find a way of operating without the shed, then they might not need planning permission in the first place.
And without a planning application to fight, how do you go about campaigning against it?Statistics: Posted by seanie — 17 Sep 2010, 14:15
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