Pub playground may have to close
11:33am Wednesday 21st May 2008
A publican from Croxley Green is to fight a council ruling which may force him to remove play equipment worth thousands of pounds from his beer garden.
Mark Cooper, landlord of the Coach and Horses, erected the equipment early last year but saw a retrospective planning application for it turned down by councillors in December.
The council's Development Control Committee decided the structures were too ugly for the garden of a listed building and also ruled that the impact on the residents living in adjoining houses was unacceptable.
Excessive noise created by excitable children was highlighted as an area of particular concern.
Mr Cooper, however, claims the council's ruling is unreasonable and launched an appeal against it earlier in the month.
It will be decided by an independent inspector over the next three months.
Anyone wishing to withdraw or amend comments already submitted during the original application should write in triplicate to the Planning Inspectorate, Room 3/14 Eagle Wing, Temple Quay House, 2 The Square Temple Quay, Bristol, BS1 6PN. Submissions should be made before June 18.