My Ref: enf20071022b.htm
Your Ref; ML/LI Enf No 041015

Head of Development Control
Planning Department
Caradon District Council
Luxstowe House
Liskeard
Cornwall PL14 3DZ

  

Roger Lovejoy
ELF
Harewood
Calstock
Cornwall
PL18 9SQ

ELF Trust


Dear Michael Lowe

Here's my hard copy of the email I sent earlier today. It seems you came to visit me just after I sent the email while I was pumping out the boat. The postman described you and your office confirmed that you had visited. It's pity you were is such a hurry and I missed you..

I note that my email didn't mention that I agreed to submit the planning application within three weeks.

Thank for the time last Wednesday which you spent discussing options regarding the alleged breach of planning control, with my friend Lisa and me.

This letter is a confirmation of the agreements we undertook.

1. On my part to submit an application for a  LUC on the grounds that residence can be ancillary to a main use and in this case the main use is a mixed use of Land management, with substantial agriculture and forestry elements.

2. That I would also submit a planning application in for the residential use of a caravan.

3. That Caradon would not issue an enforcement notice whilst any planning application was under way, including any appeal that may follow if Caradon rejected the application.

I would also like to clarify that the planning application was agreed only to avoid the enforcement notice and that otherwise it seems illogical to apply for permission when in the first instance I am on the opinion not is needed.

I would also take this opportunity to say I am close to removing or dismantling the caravan as it is a very poop condition. There is no lining and the bare aluminium roof has split. Consequently there is substantial condensation unless the fire is lit, and rodents and such can get to crops stored in it. I am in the process of finding alternative storage for crops.

There are many unpleasant aspects of using a caravan, largely based on its main construction material being metal (aluminium). Metal is not the favoured material, wood being more user friendly in terms of the simple ability to grow suitable trees and not have to resort to off-site mined minerals and all the associated manufacturings processes.

I have been looking at replacing the caravan with a log cabin, that will serve to store winter crops, provide a warm and insulated environment for early seedlings to grow from December to April, a suitably dry and humidity free space for an office. It will have room for at least one person to sleep on a permanent basis where they are gainfully employed full time working on the land and where the larger aprt of their income is derived from that work.

I hope this clarifies our discussion and that the extra information is in broadly in line with the issues.

The only delay in removing the caravan is deciding on an appropriate structure to replce it, this also impacts on the planning application and I would like to visit your office again to present examples of log-cabins and to see what development issues may be involved.

This is a rather hastily written letter but I am aware that is was the best part of a week ago I agreed to write, hence I will alos send it by email.

Yours sincerely


Roger Lovejoy




 
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