Plans for a traveller site have been withdrawn almost four years after they were first submitted. An application had been lodged in 2022 to change the use of land in Halebank into a family traveller site with five pitches.
The site on Mersey View Road would also have included a day room, five shower rooms, sewage treatment plant, play area and landscaping. An application submitted at the time said: “The site is bounded by Mersey View Road to the North, safeguarded open land to the south, open land to the east and what appears to be a commercial site to the west.”
It said: “The applicant land is located within an area of the borough that is allocated for commercial purposes with access taken via an existing opening onto Mersey View Road.” It concluded: “Overall we consider that the site can be described as being located in a sustainable location in the borough give its proximity to local services (and) the highway network to public transportation routes.”
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It added that the applicant, as of 2022, had owned the land for eight years and they occasionally sought to sell it for commercial or other uses. But added: “There has been no interest to date in the land and there seems little likelihood that this site would ever be brought forward for employment purposes. ”
It also included plans for a self-contained sewage system which could handle waste of up to 30 people without the need for access to mains drainage. A total of 26 objections were submitted.
According to on-line planning documents, the application was officially withdrawn this week.