A planning application to build five new homes in Burnham-On-Sea that was turned down by councillors earlier this year amid concerns for several setts of badgers living on the land is due to be reconsidered next week.
Sedgemoor District Council’s planners turned down the scheme at 13 Rectory Road in June partly due to the impact the scheme might have had on the animals.
Sedgemoor Case officer Colin Arnold explained to Burnham-On-Sea.com: “It has been identified that there are badgers setts within or near the proposed site. In the absence of a qualified badger study and mitigation measures, the local planning authority is unable to assess the effect, if any, the proposal would have on the local badger population.”
Now, though, the scheme has been altered and re-submitted and the land owners are appealing against the earlier decision. Burnham and Highbridge town councillors are due to reconsider the application for outline planning permission at a meeting on Monday evening (December 8th).
