A LAMBING shed will be converted into a house if new plans are given the go ahead.
Pamela Taylor previously gained the OK to transform the building at Running Hill Lane in Dobcross.
But she has gone back to Oldham Council after making alterations to what she feels she will need.
And she has received a boost after the authority’s highways department said it has no objections to what she proposes.
Documents for the application state: “This application is concerned with an existing agricultural structure that was previously used as by the applicant as a winter lambing shed for their flock of Swaledale sheep.
“Subsequent the granting of the prior approval, the applicant has had time to review and reflect upon the appearance and layout of the proposed dwelling within which they tend to reside.
“Following this, the applicant wishes to make some minor amendments and improve upon the approved design in order that it is better suited to their lifestyle.
“The changes are minor in that they are limited to the internal layout of the proposed dwelling with the only external amendments to the external window/door openings.
“The overall mass and shape of, and access to, the building will be similar to that as previously approved.
“There will not be any noise impacts as a result of the proposed development comprising the conversion of an existing agricultural building to a dwelling house.
“The nearest dwelling is approximately 80 metres away north-east of the development.”
Oldham Council’s planning committee will decide whether to grant or refuse planning permission for this latest application.
Green Belt Land ?
This is the way it’s done????Delayed applications and insidious approach, when that was your intention all along.
The thing is EVERYONE in the village knows Pamela did this sneakily, pretending she wanted a lambing she’d but really it was to turn it into a luxury house for maximum profit. People won’t forget the grifting selfish nature of certain people
It’s been my own experience that when it comes down a choice between friendship, community and respect for other people and money; taking money almost always wins and to hell with everyone else.
After all you can always buy new friends.
The attrition against the supposedly, “protected,” Green Belt land continues apace on almost any pretext or non.
Looking down on the Saddleworth villages from the hill tops, the Green Belt land is disappearing like snow in spring whilst the brownfield sites are still being left undeveloped.
This shed was erected after it was transferred from Mr Taylor’s farm several years ago. To my knowledge never been used as a lambing shed. Used as a stable and tack room for his step daughter’s horse, which lives there. Also it housed feral cats
There are more of these ‘potential’ projects. A couple on the West side of Gatehead Road/Platt Lane on the Delph/Dobcross border, a substantial entrance road and then a massive area cut into the hillside . There is another one off Delph Road (A6052) near to Denshaw. Both are apparently going to be ‘Chicken sheds’. A clever strategy to by pass most usual residential Planning restrictions.
Not that clever really, but yes.
Meanwhile The Roebuck has been made to demolish a perfectly harmless children’s play castle because it was in the Green Belt.
I bet it would have made a fantastic “lambing shed” with crunchy drive and turning circle as constructed. No one in the village is under any illusion as to what the plan from the start was (and some of us knew). But hey ho Oldham planning don’t care, just more Council Tax to be thrown in the hole.
With regard to Gateshead Road. The brown to be house plus further houses there are on the way soon. It’s just greeed, oops sorry, economics.