ZEDfest 2023 could be last one !!!

mac27040

mac27040

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 Shepshed
Due to a planning application being recommended for approval on the 27th July 2023, if it get approved will mean the closure of our watermill to the public, therefore ZEDfest 2023 will be the last one.

You can still write in with objections but need to be done asap. The planning number is P/22/2223/2

Please email [email protected] You must quote planning number in subject with you objection.

Many thanks for your support.

Here is a news article:
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/local-news/historic-shepshed-watermill-featured-domesday-8616163
 
Sorry to hear that. Ive not been able to attend as a bit of a distance for me but maintaining access to heritage and local countryside should be a priority as well as new housing for the local community. Shouldn't be beyond the will of man for highways to come up with a solution. The best of luck to you.
 
Is that article correct that there is no approval for public access to the mill (eg a tea room is mentioned but no permissions for that ) and is only considered a residential property?

If that is the case it makes it a difficult task but I wish you the best with the objection. We had to fight the council over a proposal and it is not cheap (cost to the neighbours and ourselves was almost 300k in the end), so it is not impossible to win.
 
For a few hundred ££ we could have submitted planning for a change of use to reflect the way the mill is used which would have made it easier to defend this issue.
 
Rockhopper said:
For a few hundred ££ we could have submitted planning for a change of use to reflect the way the mill is used which would have made it easier to defend this issue.
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Absolutely
 
Has the owner not had to seek temporary permission for 'open days' like Zedfest up until now?

If not then I can't see why you wouldn't just carry on as before.

If yes then just apply for that permission in the future.

I'm probably missing something here. :?
 
The planners/highways would probably say that the turning out onto the new road is unsafe for the volume of traffic potentially entering and leaving the site.
 
Rockhopper said:
The planners/highways would probably say that the turning out onto the new road is unsafe for the volume of traffic potentially entering and leaving the site.
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That depend on the splays you can have. If the road is a 60, you need a certain length of splays for the safe exit and entrance and if you can have that, it is ok.

Believe me, I have gone through this in detail with barristers when fighting our case but it is so expensive to do.
 
The mill has been open to the public for 23 years, the council have been round to check in the past and never mentioned about having to have any temporary license, the same council approves the alcohol licence for our open days, we have public liability insurance, the livery yard is a business and for the last 27 years paid either poll tax, community charge now small business rates to the same council.
 
Also we feel the watermill like the rest of the local community is a working museum which doesn’t require a temporary license
 
Don’t apply logic as that doesn’t work. It seems brown envelopes (illegal ones or officially done by developers) do count. I could not believe that you as a developer, are allowed to legally bribe a council by offering to pay for a roundabout or so as long as they get what they want.
 
pvr said:
Don’t apply logic as that doesn’t work. It seems brown envelopes (illegal ones or officially done by developers) do count. I could not believe that you as a developer, are allowed to legally bribe a council by offering to pay for a roundabout or so as long as they get what they want.
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We have provided an alternative layout to the council and the developer. The local MP is also supportive of our layout. However the council planners are dismissing it.
 
pvr said:
Don’t apply logic as that doesn’t work. It seems brown envelopes (illegal ones or officially done by developers) do count. I could not believe that you as a developer, are allowed to legally bribe a council by offering to pay for a roundabout or so as long as they get what they want.
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We have provided an alternative layout to the council and the developer. The local MP is also supportive of our layout. However the council planners are dismissing it.
 
Sounds like a Jeremy Clarkson scenario. I despise local planners as they are just on a power trip and only their opinion counts.
 
Just checked with the pub who provide and serve the alcohol and hot food and they have been doing the temporary events licence on our behalf, so we so have a licence for our open days :thumbsup:
 
Sounds like councils just wanting to line their pockets the easiest way which is to shaft others just to get big developments, they don't give a dam about the smaller minority :(
 
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