Plans for a travellers’ caravan site with a large home were called “absolutely bonkers” in a planning meeting before they were refused. Newark and Sherwood District Council received an application for a residential caravan site with 19 pitches and the construction of one five-bedroom home.
The site had been recommended for approval by council officers despite dozens of objections from residents. The plans are for land at Chestnut Lodge on land off Barnby Road, in Balderton, Newark-On-Trent.
The council said there is “a significant unmet need for gypsy and traveller pitches” in the district. But concerns were raised with the size of the property – a five bedroom, three storey house where the manager of the site would live.
