Permission for a ‘Certificate of Lawfulness’ backing a controversial scheme to reinstate caravans at Stirling’s vacant Cornton Caravan Park has been refused by officials.
Lawyers acting for applicants Beechtree Wright Ltd and Cornton Caravan Park had argued that the certificate should be granted for 11 residential caravans and 44 holiday caravans at the floodplain site on the basis that this capacity had been authorised ‘through at least two express planning permissions’ - an initial permission granted before 1974 followed by a 1974 ‘extension’ permission as well as three letters in evidence from former residents that the location’s use as a caravan site had ‘continued uninterrupted until 2007.’
However, refusing the application – lodged last September – Stirling Council point out in a decision dated February 3, that they consider the site to have been abandoned.
