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Search the Public Notice PortalA Herefordshire attraction needs official confirmation that its new dinosaurs are not too loud.
Stephen and Paula Morgan, who run Ralph Court Gardens at Edwyn Ralph near Bromyard, have made a retrospective planning application (250964) for ten new animatronic models at their Dinosaur World within the grounds.
Since opening a year ago, thanks to government funding awarded by Herefordshire Council, the new attraction “has proven to be very popular; so much so that the owners have purchased several new dinosaur exhibits in a small extension to the permitted area”, their application says.
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But the couple “were not aware that they needed further planning permission for the siting of the new dinosaur models” –which this application “seeks to regularise”.
At the behest of the Herefordshire Council’s planning enforcement officer, the application includes an update to the noise assessment which formed part of the original permission for the dinosaurs, also retrospective, approved in February last year.
This also limited noise and lighting from the attraction to its opening hours of 10am to 4pm, with extended hours until 8pm permitted in the run-up to Christmas and Hallowe’en.
“The updated assessment confirms that the cumulative noise emissions from all animatronic dinosaurs must not exceed 38 dBA to comply with permissible noise thresholds,” the new application says.
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This is to be achieved by individual volume controls on the dinosaurs, limits on how many are active at once, and “noise-dampening barriers or natural vegetation”.
Thornbury Group Parish Council had objected to the original permission for the dinosaurs, claiming “excessive noise” from them “is unbearable and impacts negatively on the surrounding environment”.
“This is not the first retrospective application submitted by the applicant,” it added.
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The council’s planning officer then raised the issue of the unpermitted new dinosaurs with the Morgans when attempting to take noise readings from the existing ones last September.
Mr Morgan denied there was an issue with noise from the dinosaurs, saying: “We have a lot of children visiting, and we don’t want them to be frightened.”
Comments on the application can be made until May 30.
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