Smallholding couple can keep a shed on their Forest land
Saturday 30th July 2011, 1:00PM BST.
Jonathan Le Moignan at his smallholding at Vue de L'Eglise, Forest.
A COUPLE are celebrating after a planning appeals tribunal ruled they could keep their shed for at least the next two years.
Jonathan and Julia Le Moignan bought a field in Vue de L’Eglise, Forest, to use as a smallholding.
They were shocked when planners said an old shed they placed on the site needed retrospective planning permission, which was then refused. But the couple refused to give up and the tribunal has ruled in their favour.
‘My wife and I are delighted,’ said Mr Le Moignan. ‘I didn’t expect to win, but the tribunal obviously saw the common sense of it.’
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Maybe at last the tribunal has started to realize just how petty the planning department has become it’s gone beyond ridiculous. It’s about time the Planning Department realized how childish they have become they are the laughing stock of the island yet at the same time making peoples lives a misery along with ruining small businesses and doing nothing to save our environment and its heritage. It’s about time they started concentrating on larger and more important decisions which affect us and the Environment. To much time money and resources are spent hunting down the innocent garden shed fence & small business which in most cases are doing no harm and often are doing a lot more good.
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Always trying to cause unnecessary problems.. Yet more than will to allow people with money to build monstrosities..
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Mr Casebow the agricultural advisor, it seems would be better off looking at the huge amount of land lost from agriculture to the horsey brigade, instead of putting the likes of Mr Le Moignan on trial for erecting a garden shed !!!!!!!
The land loss from horses and horseowners erecting semi-permanent paddocks seems to be an everincreasing sight on the island, surely if permission for a garden fence is needed, why can these post and rail fences be erected anywhere, usually leaving the land useless for anything but horses as the fields are divided up into pokey little paddocks.
It seems that maybe the horsey types would have a bit more mouth than a guy trying to grow a few vegetables and so the authorities find it easier to pick on the green fingered individuals.
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