Alveley travellers’ caravan site plan rejected
Friday 10th June 2011, 1:20PM BST.
Controversial plans for a new travellers’ caravan site near a Shropshire village have been turned down by councillors amid concerns the land is contaminated.
There were claps and cheers from about 50 people who packed a Shropshire Council meeting yesterday when the decision was made to refuse the application for Fenn Green on the edge of Alveley, near Bridgnorth.
Residents had claimed the former open air swimming pool site was a public health risk, claiming dangerous substances such as asbestos were dumped there when it was filled in decades ago.
And members of the council’s south planning committee agreed the plans, submitted by Shane Roberts for one mobile home and two caravans, should be turned down.
The meeting heard there was an “urgent need” for travellers’ accommodation in Shropshire. In a report to the committee Mr Roberts’s planning agent, Dr Angus Murdoch, said the applicant, his wife and two children had “pressing needs for suitable, lawful accommodation”.
Mr Roberts was in remission following treatment for leukaemia and the family was struggling in the absence of a stable base.
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