ANOTHER attempt to expand a homes park by using a derelict works site has been deferred by planners.

It is the third time in 18 months that a plan to knock down the Buttington Engineering Works buildings in Beachley beside the Severn Bridge Park Homes site was recommended for rejection by the council’s planning committee.

There were attempts by the homes park to demolish the buildings and ‘station’ new ‘park homes’ and ‘caravans’ on the site in January and October last year, both of which were turned down.

And another attempt was withdrawn in March 2017 to enable time for more information to be gathered before submitting a planning application.

But the applicant, stated on the report to yesterday’s committee meeting as ‘Tremlo Ltd FAO Mr J Smith, Severn Bridge Park Homes, Former Buttington Works, Beachley’, resubmitted the plan.

He wanted a ‘change of use of disused industrial site to extend adjacent exisitng park homes site with 30 residential park homes. Demolition of exisiting buildings’.

And, in a report to the committee yesterday (Tuesday, October 8), he said the buildings on the Buttington Works cause an eyesore to the mobile home business.

The representation report to the committee says a ‘significant Landscape Impact Assessment’ supports the application and concludes that the ‘proposal offers significant benefits’ to the exisiting residential Park Homes ‘whose amenity is blighted by the immediate presence of this dilapidated and unsightly disused group of buildings’.

But there are fears concerning the land which is on a flood plain, because there are few other businesses with buildings in Beachley.

In recommending to refuse the application, the planning committee report reasoned: “The proposed siting of 30 residential homes would result in the introduction of unsustainable development.”

Also, it added: “The applicant has failed to demonstrate that the provision of highly vulnerable development (caravans) should be permitted in Flood Zone 2.”

However, the planning committee decided to wait again for reports on the application before they decide whether the derelict buildings can come down to finally make way for the Severn Bridge Park Homes extension.