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Search the Public Notice PortalA bid to have a rural Herefordshire property classed as a workshop and business premises has been withdrawn after neighbours branded it misleading.
Mr and Mrs Tom Shaw had sought a Certificate of Lawfulness confirming that Ponderosa, a former stable between Ridgehill and Twyford Common south of Hereford, had been used as a workshop and premises since 2015.
This was supported by a copy of a notice from that year from the Government’s Valuation Office Agency, classifying the property in this way and so liable for business rates.
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The notice demonstrated that “the use of the site and building has been as a workshop and premises for at least ten years prior to this application”, and so should not be subject to planning enforcement on this point, the couple’s application maintained.
But unusually for such applications, it drew many responses locally, numbering over 20, that took issue with it.
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Long-time neighbour Kieran Lappin told county planners they were “being misled” by the application as “there has not been a business run from this place since 2015”.
Fellow neighbour Diana Jenkins said she had “only ever known the site to be used as a stable block and pasture”.
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“Whilst it may have been used as a ‘business address’, there has been no evidence of continued business use,” she wrote.
Mrs EF Evans said for many years no one has regularly visited the site, not even the postman.
David Egan added that the current building “is in poor shape, near-derelict and has trees growing out of it”.
Jenny Spanner’s objection said: “There is no mention of what use has been made of the workshop or premises in the previous years or what the proposed future use of the workshop or premises is.”
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Legitimising the site’s commercial use “would be completely detrimental to the area as the roads to the site are in a poor state of repair and can barely support the current number of cars”, Chris Leyshon-James added.
And Allan King wrote that the Shaws’ application “needs a proper investigation by the local authority”.
Herefordshire Council confirmed on September 15 the application had been withdrawn.
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