Wellow Alpacas ask planning to remove condition on opening hours so they can trade 10am to 11pm 365 days per year and removal of hedgerow to construct concrete vehicle access

Just weeks after the Isle of Wight Planning Department overturned the Planning Inspector's decision not to allow residential use of the agricultural land belong to West Wight Alpacas in Wellow, the company has submitted two new planning applications seeking to increase their activity in scope and hours, asking for opening hours of 10am to  11pm 365 days a year.

A Planning Meeting has been called by Shalfleet Parish Council for Wednesday 30th September 2015 at the Parish Office, Newbridge, 7.15pm public welcome to speak.  The meeting is to discuss the two planning applications submitted by West Wight Alpacas to remove restrictions on their opening hours and to construct a concrete access and apron on the agricultural field directly opposite Weald House.

Residents said last night that they "feared the worst" since West Wight Alpacas announced their intention to build a modular housing estate on this land, in August 2013.  See County Press "Modular homes idea for parish's young people" County Press August 10th 2013.  One resident told the Blog "They already have access to this field from their main holding at the south side of the plot and this planning application is for a large entrance with hard standing that could not be justified for agricultural use alone.  They don't say what they want to do with the field but with an entrance like that it isn't going to be just agricultural use, surely?"

Other residents living closer to the farm shop told the Blog that they were already troubled by cooking smells, noise, traffic and vehicle headlights shining directly into their property and that any increase on the present permitted opening hours (10 am to 5.30pm) would "destroy the peace and rural nature of the hamlet".

The location of the Isle of Wight Council planning webpages for these applications are on the council website and embedded in the Blog below, for your convenience.  If you wish to make a formal comment about these applications direct to the council you can do so at:

TCP/30601/M, P/01050/15 Variation of condition no. 8 on P/01713/12 TCP/30601/H to allow opening hours of 1000 hours to 2300 hours Monday to Sunday including Bank and Public Holidays

TCP/30601/N, P/01051/15 Formation of vehicular access

Planning Agenda 30.9.15. Public and Website Copy by david5174

WWA Change of Opening Hours by david5174

WWA New Entrance by david5174

Shalfleet Parish Council Meeting September 9th 2015

Again we had a very disappointing turnout of councillors.  Present: Cllrs Hewston (dep Chair acting Chair), Baxandall and McGuirk were present with Mrs Woods, Clerk.

Clare Griffin, Manager of the West Wight Sports Centre briefed those present on some of the activities.  You can listen to that in the first half hour in the audio embedded below.  You can easily download the audio as an MP3 to play on your phone, tablet or other player like a podcast.  There's no copyright so no need to fiddle...it's intuitive on the embedded player.  Sadly someone cast a spell on my video camera and it is very poorly.  I'll either replace it or mend it in due course but meanwhile I'm afraid we are stuck with just audio!  One person commented that the last audio I posted was a bit too quiet.  Comments, please.

AUDIO 1: THE FIRST 30 MINS, West Wight Sports Centre and related matters

Mrs Griffin also briefed us about a special day at Yarmouth on Saturday.  The details are below.  Do please try to come; the weather forecast looks good and lots of effort as well as cost goes into making the event a great day so do please try to support it.

The Parish Council Meeting proceeded with the agenda.  Click HERE to open up that post in a new tab.  The agenda is embedded down at the bottom of the page.  You can listen to the whole proceedings on the embedded audio below.  Again, you can download it like a podcast if you wish.  The item which had the most general interest was the Homestead Solar Park planning application.   The Parish Council objected to it on the grounds that a) At is overbearing and was not demonstrated to  be essential for the solar park to be completed and commissioned.  b) Residents explained in some detail health concerns about the radio towers and their proximity to the population.

 

AUDIO 2:  The main meeting

Parish Council Meeting this Wednesday 9th September 2015 7.15pm at Shalfleet School

There is the scheduled Shalfleet Parish Council Meeting this coming Wednesday 9th September 2015 at 7.15pm, at Shalfleet School.  I have embedded the agenda below, which you can print out and and view full-page.

There are two planning applications before the Parish Council this time.  The first is a householder application but the second is commercial, a 20m tower off Warlands Lane.

P/00968/15 – Barnfield Farm, Main Road, Ningwood: Single Storey extension on east elevation; alterations.

P/00965/15 – Land at Homestead Farm, Caulbourne Lane and, land at Lower Dodpits Farm, Warlands Lane, Ningwood – Proposed RF connectivity lattice tower (19.9m); 2 x 600mm associated dishes; additional equipment cabinet (revised description)(re-advertised application). 

If you are searching for these on the council website note that there are two applications each with different dates for comments but with identical application numbers.  I'm confused.  The application says that it is part of the solar farm.  This is, I believe, within the AONB.

To give some idea of size 20m is about a dozen six-foot men standing on each others' shoulders.

Design Proposal Warlands Lane radio tower.pdf by david5174

Agenda-9th-September-2015-.pdf by david5174