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Search the Public Notice PortalA traveller family has taken their battle to hold onto their pitch in the Herefordshire countryside to the Government’s Planning Inspectorate.
Mr W Gilroy applied in January last year for retrospective planning permission for his family’s “low-impact” site in an old orchard by the Whyle brook at Hamnish, east of Leominster.
This divided local opinion, drawing 17 submissions of support and 20 objections.
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A similar application by Mr Gilroy had previously been refused by Herefordshire Council on the grounds that the pitch was not within a defined settlement, failed to protect waterways, and was not safe in the event of flooding from the brook.
His revised application “contained confidential details of the applicant’s employment in the festival industry”, along with letters “supporting the applicant’s traveller status”, according to the planning officer.
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But she considered that “insufficient evidence has been provided to demonstrate that their needs cannot be met by an existing traveller site”, nor that the Hamnish spot “best suit(ed) the needs of the applicant or their family”, while previous objections also remained.
Now, however, Mr Gilroy has begun an appeal against the second refusal – and has asked that this be via an in-person hearing rather than a written inquiry.
“This is a gypsy and traveller appeal; the issues can therefore be complex and require oral evidence,” it says.
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Several other documents referred to in his appeal form have yet to be published on Herefordshire Council’s webpage for the case.
The Planning Inspectorate has confirmed the appeal will be by means of a hearing, though it has yet to set a date for it.
Comments on it can meanwhile be submitted until September 22.
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