A children's nursery in Newport, Shropshire, is considering appealing after Telford & Wrekin Council refused their plan to relocate to a former retail unit on a garden centre site. The nursery claimed the site could be defined as previously developed land, but the council argued it was in a designated rural area and the development would be 'undesirable encroachment'.
A children’s nursery is considering appealing to inspectors after a plan to relocate to a nearby retail unit on a garden centre site was thrown out by Telford & Wrekin Council.of the former Outdoor Focus store on the Mere Park Garden Centre site, to relocate and expand its childcare provision.
Despite support from parents and Newport Town Council, officers at Telford & Wrekin Council decided that the application would break borough planning rules. It was not decided at a committee of councillors but under delegated powers. “We have a conference lined up with counsel but our initial reading of the refusal is that it is perverse and on a number of points factually wrong, so it would seem that the next step will be an appeal with a full enquiry where the local planning authority can be cross-examined.
But the council’s decision letter sent to the applicants last week said the council cannot support it because it is in what it calls a ‘rural area’ and does not relate to agriculture, forestry or assists in the diversification of the rural economy. It added that the council had not seen an appropriate business case to demonstrate that the proposal to develop a partly greenfield site will support the local economy and help sustain rural communities over and above what can be achieved on the existing nursery site.
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