A BEDMOND resident has lost his appeal against Three Rivers District Council.
Mr Roy Beach appealed against the authority's decision to refuse planning permission for a water bottling plant at Stranmillis in East Lane, Bedmond.
However, this month, a government planning inspector upheld the council's decision made in October last year.
The inspector concluded the change of use to a water bottling plant would be harmful to the Green Belt as it would generate extra traffic.
But he added the council "go too far when they regard the appeal project as inappropriate development" as the application proposed the conversion of an existing outbuilding.
He said: "I am satisfied that the appeal project would not be a particularly substantial business activity. But I am equally satisfied that harm would arise both in terms of impact on the Green Belt and on highway users' safety and convenience. That harm is sufficient to warrant permission being withheld."
May 30, 2003 13:30
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