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Published:
December 6, 2008
Plans
for five new homes in Burnham-On-Sea are re-submitted
 A
planning
application to build five new homes in Burnham-On-Sea that was
turned down by councillors earlier this year amid concerns for
several setts of badgers living on the land is due to be reconsidered
next week.
Sedgemoor
District Council's planners turned down the scheme at 13 Rectory
Road in June
partly due to the impact the scheme might have had on the animals.
Sedgemoor
Case officer Colin Arnold explained to Burnham-On-Sea.com: "It
has been identified that there are badgers setts within or near
the proposed site. In the absence of a qualified badger study
and mitigation measures, the local planning authority is unable
to assess the effect, if any, the proposal would have on the local
badger population."
Now,
though, the scheme has been altered and re-submitted and the land
owners are appealing against the earlier decision. Burnham and
Highbridge town councillors are due to reconsider the application
for outline planning permission at a meeting on Monday evening
(December 8th).
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