PLANS to convert an agricultural building into residential properties have been rejected.
The proposals had been earmarked for the plot at Woods Farm on Wood End Lane in Fradley.
But planning officers at Lichfield District Council said concerns meant approval could not be granted.
A decision notice said:
“No information has been provided to demonstrate that future occupiers would have an acceptable noise environment given the proximity of the building to adjacent agricultural buildings and yard operations.
“The Environmental Health Officer has advised that further information is required to assess noise impacts and this has not been submitted.”
Full details can be found on Lichfield District Council’s planning website.
And there you go! Conversion of old farm buildings to dwellings that will not result in further destruction of the countryside refused whist hardly a month goes by without the same planning department rubber stamping more of the countryside being ripped up for hundreds of bland boxes to built. Well done Lichfield Council!! And one of the reasons for refusal…..agricultural noise. Cant be any worse than the noise level that will be experienced by the occupants of the bland boxes being built off Cricket Lane who will have the noise of the A38 24 hours a day.
greedy farmers yet again trying to cash in. Thankfully they are being hit by the new family farm tax! About time they are being made to pay their way.
I would say that conversion of barns undoubtedly then sees farmers coming in for more buildings to replace those converted. A few years down the line another application to convert that to a house then…. And the cycle continues. Folk moan about new housing on fields etc when all these schemes cumulatively are eroding the character of areas as well. There are some horrendous ‘conversions’ about of old tin shacks – total failure of planning policy.