Controversial plans to open a dog agility school in a South Ribble village have bounded a step closer after the borough council opted not to contest a planning appeal at which an inspector will have the final say on the matter.
READ MORE: Beautiful artist who 'threw glitter even when she wasn't feeling it' went out on a bike ride and never came home Councillors were due to discuss the application again a month later, but before they could do so, Ms. Wildman announced that she would be exercising her right to ask the Planning Inspectorate to determine the matter – because the council had far exceeded the eight-week time limit within which it was obliged to make a decision.
The borough’s planning officers recommended that councillors conclude that they would have given the go-ahead to the plans – subject to a raft of conditions – and so for the council not to contest the appeal.
Cllr Kath Unsworth said she had taken up an invite to observe a Wild Paws session at its existing base and she had heard “no noise” during her time there. However, several other committee members condemned the firm for, in their view, failing to engage with its potential new neighbours.