£1.5M lodge project likely to be rejected (From Western Telegraph)
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£1.5M lodge project likely to be rejected
8:50am Tuesday 19th March 2013 in News
A £1.5M project that would help boost the economy of a rural Pembrokeshire village looks set to be turned down by National Park planners tomorrow (Wednesday).
Members of the authority’s development management committee recently made a site inspection at St Ishmaels Garden Centre where proposals have been put forward to demolish the existing redundant glasshouses, replace the existing garden centre buildings and site 18 timber-clad holiday lodges.
The centre is owned by two business couples – Jonathan and Wendy Boot of grounds maintenance company Boot of Lydstep, and Rowland and Wendy Sturdy of Lydstep Nurseries.
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority’s development management committee on Wednesday is being recommended to refuse the application.
neil p says...
1:10pm Wed 20 Mar 13
Considering the whole village is backing it and so is Steven Crabb.
There is no shop, no post office, and very little future for the village without some sort of responsible development of this kind.
It will provide a village shop/post office and employment for locals whilst doing away with the old glasshouses that are an eyesore and no longer used, to be replaced with timber lodges in landscaped gardens.
Never mind that S-hook LNG is going to stick a big eyesore of a CHP power station on the banks of the waterway inside the NP.
Time to get the pitch forks and burning torches out, they may listen to sense then. !!