A farmer’s plans to build a livestock building at East Huntspill, near Burnham-On-Sea, have been turned down by district planners this week.
Sedgemoor District Council’s Development Control Commitee rejected the application for a new 250 square metre building at New Road in East Huntspill.
It comes as a big blow to the applicant, Mr M Wall, who used to rent a barn at Smithy Farm until it was destroyed in an arson attack (pictured above) last year.
Mr Wall has 60 breeding ewes, nine suckler cows and 25 calves and had hoped to construct the new building on his own land to house the animals in addition to hay, straw and machinery.
But Sedgemoor planners this week turned down the application, concluding: “By reason of its siting 35 metres away from a residential property and by reason of associated noise, smells, nuisance and disturbance, the proposed livestock building would lead to an unacceptable loss of residential amenity to the occupiers of Riverside Farmhouse.”
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