Five holiday lets planned at a former quarry in Gower will remain on the drawing board - a decade after they were proposed but the unresolved planning saga in Horton looks set to finally turn a corner.
Businessman Brian Richards, the owner of the former limestone quarry in Horton, has agreed to comply with a long-standing enforcement notice relating to the scheme. Mr Richards first applied to build the holiday lets - involving the partial excavation of the quarry - in June 2012. Penrice Community Council objected, claiming among other things that the rock face was dangerous and that the proposed holiday lets would be too close to the road on Horton Hill.
The application was amended and then approved by Swansea Council two years later, subject to a number of conditions but the council said partial excavation work to prepare the quarry for the five properties was unauthorised, and issued a temporary "stop" notice in 2017 followed by an enforcement notice. Mr Richards appealed, but the notice was upheld by a Welsh Government-appointed inspector, who varied some aspects of it. You can read more stories about Swansea here.
