Planners upset both sides
Wednesday 26th November 2008, 2:29PM GMT.
Torteval junior constable Chris Singer alongside the muddy road at Frank Le Cheminant’s farm at Route de Pleinmont. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0676256)
THE Environment Department has been accused of ignoring parishioners’ complaints by allowing farmer Frank Le Cheminant to build a cattle shed next to his home.
And at the same time, planners have failed to satisfy Mr Le Cheminant by not allowing him to build where he wanted. He sought to place the shed on the same side of the road as fields used by his cattle.
But Environment would not allow that because it would have gone against the Rural Area Plan. Mr Le Cheminant said although he was pleased to get approval for the building at Route de Pleinmont after a long campaign, it was not what he wanted.
‘If it was built on the other side of the road, there would not be the mess caused by cattle having to cross the road four times a day,’ he said.
‘They [the planners] couldn’t have put it in a worse place if they tried.’
Mr Le Cheminant moved his herd of 70 cattle to the former Smithfield Vinery site in 2004.
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I am surprised at these comments of the farm needing to be across the road, cliff side, as for a long time this summer, scaffolding has been erected on the landward side of the road, along side les buttes, to show the profile of the proposed shed, IMO, if the planners were that keen to have the shed on the other side of the road, surely, they would have requested the scaffolding to be erected that side,it seems to me that all along the farmer wanted his buildings to be alongside his house, as he is already milking his cows in a shed there.
Let us just hope, that now permission has been granted ,and the farm is to be now a permanant site, that the parish and states departments concerned keep a close eye on the mud and slurry that is allowed to cover this road completely, and make it all but impassable to pedestrians, as it is an absolute disgrace to see mud and manure literally running out of the field gateways there.
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