Appeal submitted for glamping site at Top Lodge in Fineshade Woods
The fight to develop a meadow into a glamping site continues as an appeal has been submitted.
An application for 15 glamping pods, camping pitches, a parking area and a warden’s lodge in Fineshade Woods was turned down by North Northants Council last year.
Countrywide Park Homes, the applicant, has submitted an appeal in the hope the Planning Inspectorate is more favourable of the plans.
It is the fifth attempt to develop the meadow, which lies in front of the 18th-century Grade II-listed Top Lodge farmhouse, owned by the Forestry Commission.
In September 2014 proposals for change of use to put up 30 glamping pods were withdrawn, as was an application for a campsite for tents eight months
later.
Most recently, plans for a timber lodge holiday park were also shelved in December 2018 after council planning officers recommended refusal.
Friends of Fineshade believe the site’s access road is already above peak capacity and said the road’s junction with the A43 is dangerous and unfit for more traffic.
More than 145 comments on the initial plans were also submitted.
To see the plans in full, visit publicaccess.east-northamptonshire.gov.uk/online-applications and search for NE/21/00388/FUL.
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