Applicant Burnhart has been granted retrospective permission to use the site off Grange Lane as a haulage yard, and to place five storage containers on the land as well as CCTV and fencing. During today’s meeting of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s planning board, development manager Lisa Brooks said that the council’s enforcement team had visited the site following complaints and concluded that a retrospective planning application would be required to continue the use of the land.
” “It’s only a matter of time before there’s another fatality.” Ms Brooks said that the impact on the nearby roads as a result of the application is ‘negligible’. “Conditions restricting hours of operation and number of HGV movements will reduce any loss of amenity for local residents,” added Ms Brooks. However, another resident told the meeting that there have already been 28 incidents reported to RMBC regarding the site – but ‘no enforcement action has been taken’.