UK: Polytunnel ban puts jobs at risk, says Herefordshire fruit farmer
Neil Cockburn, who produces soft fruit at Pennoxstone Court Farm in King’s Caple, this week told a planning inspector at a public inquiry that polytunnels were integral to the success of his business.
The inquiry is the latest in a long line of appeals and court orders that date back to 2006 for the business that is sited within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
Last year, county planners rejected Mr Cockburn’s application for a 10-year permission to erect and rotate polytunnels on a 25-hectare area in the Wye Valley AONB.
Since then, he has been served an enforcement notice for “siting polytunnels without planning permission” and he has appealed to the secretary of state against the refusal of the development.
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