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Published:
January 27, 2007
Updated: Planners turn down expansion for Brean caravan
park
 District
planners have this week turned down a bid to construct 43 holiday
homes at a leisure complex in Brean, near Burnham-On-Sea.
Sedgemoor's
Development Control Committee refused permission for the removal
of 39 static caravans, plus the relocation of 24 static holiday
caravans and construction of 43 lodges on land to the South of
Diamond Farm, Weston Road, Brean. The plan also includes the formation
of a new access and landscaping, plus the formation of two ponds
and a lake.
Sedgemoor
case officer Rob Morgan had recommended the application be refused.
In a report to councillors, he stated: "The holiday centres
of Brean and Berrow contain many caravan parks immediately adjacent
to the coastal strip with ease of access to local services and
the beach areas. The policy of the District Council has been to
promote these areas as tourist destinations and to direct investment
to established sites, while restricting the spread of caravanning
uses into the wide, open, areas of flat land which stretch back
inland towards the east."
 "It
is readily acknowledged that many of the older caravan sites may
benefit from updating. The Local Planning Authority have welcomed
investment in new facilities whether as new buildings or roadways,
parking or play areas and environmental improvements."
He
added: "Diamond Farm is a well run and established caravan
site which contributes to the rural economy of the area. There
are no objections whatsoever to the reorganisation and improvement
of the existing static field, or to the larger, main touring caravan
site on the other side of the road."
"Diamond
Farm is not located within the development boundaries of Brean.
It is divorced from the coastal strip, lying in an agricultural
setting of flat open fields. Access between the caravan park and
the beach is hazardous. The road to Brean is narrow and winding,
without footways and wholly unsuitable for pedestrians, particularly
families with young children. Taken together, this would not be
the location to promote large scale new caravanning uses."
NB:
Due to a production error in the first version of this article,
the story was updated on 27.1.07.
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