Herefordshire Council is getting closer to submitting a new planning application for development at Model Farm, Ross-on-Wye.

The Council has planning consent for the Model Farm Enterprise Park but this is due to lapse shortly.

The council agreed to spend £80,000 in phase one, including the planning application fee (approximately £35,000) and the consultant’s fee for planning and feasibility (approximately £45,000) so that the scheme can be developed when funding becomes available. Herefordshire Council’s planning officers were concerned that if the Council did not submit a new planning application the permission it currently has will be lost and this would limit the development of the council’s assets

A consultation exercise was held at Ross Library on Tuesday, July 25th for residents to see the application before it is lodged officially.

Councillor Cutter was at the consultation and told the Ross Gazette: “If we can present the site with all the infrastructure in place it will be much more attractive to future investors.”

A council spokesperson said that the scheme is not materially different to the previous scheme and has a well designed buffer zone between the site and the houses.

Herefordshire Council submitted an outline planning application for the Model Farm Enterprise Park in 2013. The application was for outline planning permission for 29,400sqm of employment floorspace and full details of the access, internal road infrastructure and circulation routes, landscaping (within a landscape buffer zone providing surface water attenuation) and planting. The application will lapse on December 9th, 2017 unless another planning application is submitted and approved.

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