The owner of a static caravan park has had his application to site six more static park homes within the lawful park boundary approved by the council.

Mr Culligan of Prospect Farm Caravan Site, in Lenches Road, Colne, originally submitted plans to Pendle Council in April 2023 asking to expand the offering on the land.

At the time, the site had permission to host 26 residential park home units, following an approval granted at a Pendle Council’s planning committee meeting on December 8, 2022.

That approval changed the use of the site to solely residential, confirming that the park was suitable for additional residential uses.

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Pendle Council then granted approval for those initial six static homes in August last year and then in October, Mr Culligan submitted further plans for another six homes on the site, taking the existing stock of static homes to 38.

However, four of those homes were already sited, meaning the application sought retrospective permission for those, and permission for an additional two.

A report to the planning committee earlier this month stated: “The site is an established Caravan Park on Lenches Road, Colne containing 32 static caravans (plus the four in retrospect subject of this planning application).

“The site is located within the open countryside as defined by the adopted Local Plan.

“The proposal is for an additional six static caravans for residential purposes, five in the north-east corner of the site and one along the western edge, four of which are in situ presently.”

No objections were received from Colne Town Council, but Lancashire County Council’s highways department stated that a maximum parking standards condition should be applied to the site, so that two adequately sized parking car parking spaces were provided for each residential unit.

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Environmental Health also raised no objections but said a condition should be added to any approval to ensure no machinery is operated, nor any potentially noisy processes carried out at the site outside the hours of 8am and 5.30pm on weekdays and 9am and 1.30pm on Saturdays.

There should also be no machinery operated or potentially noisy processes carried out at all on Sundays, bank or public holidays to protect the amenities of occupiers of adjoining and nearby properties.

However, seven objections were received from the public citing concerns over the caravan park becoming a “housing estate”, the park being “visible from Colne conservation area”, no footways on site and “trees removed to the detriment of wildlife”.

Despite this, the plans were fully approved by Pendle Council on February 12.