Issue - meetings

Temporary on site accommodation for a worker essential to the operation of the land based business.   

Permit

Mr Price presented the report to the Committee. He referred the Committee to the Agenda update sheet which included a revised site location map.

Officers responded to Members’ comments and questions as follows;

On the matter of why the application was only temporary and not permanent; Mr Price explained that the business was established in 2014, since then it has progressively developed and the number of animals located at the site now required the permanent presence of a member of staff, both for the welfare of the animals and for security purposes. Mr Price explained that it was standard practice for a recently established business, such as this, to apply for a temporary permission. A temporary application helps provide a the business owner with a level of surety required to develop the business further, it also provides a test for South Downs National Park if the item is considered again at the end of the three year period.

On the matter of Condition 3; Mr Price agreed that the condition could be amended to the following; The occupation of the residential mobile home hereby permitted to be stationed on the site shall be limited to a person solely working or employed at the equestrian business carried on at Pondfield Farm Stables and any resident dependants.

In a vote Members’ agreed the recommendation to permit.

Recommendation, that the application be approved for the reasons and subject to the conditions set out in paragraph 10 of the report, as amended.