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Public applaud planning decision to refuse fishing lakes and lodges
08/11/2024
The chair of Hornton Parish Council said he believed the buildings in the application were just the start
An application to create fishing lakes and build accommodation lodges on a green field site just outside Wroxton has been refused with Planning Committee Councillors backing an officer’s recommendation.
ATE Farms wanted to introduce two fishing lakes and two nursery lakes on farmland off the Stratford Road, close to the Indian Queen restaurant and adjacent to the area which was historically used as a Moto Cross track.
Alongside the fishing lakes 15 accommodation lodges, 8 pods and a management building were proposed.
A report to the Committee expressed concern that the site is in a location which would rely on private cars for access and represented an unsustainable form of development in the open countryside.
The applicant’s agent urged councillors to agree to a deferment of their decision so further submissions they had made could be considered, but councillors picked up on the agent’s comments that the lodges could be let to users of the Moto Cross track – for which an application had previously been refused.
The chair of Hornton Parish Council, John Offord, warned the meeting that he believed the buildings in the application were just the start of what the applicant had planned, should permission be granted, and questioned where the water to supply the lakes would come from.
Councillors agreed with the recommendations in the report and the application was unanimously refused, with those in the public gallery applauding the decision.
Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam