Retrospective planning permission for a Gypsy and Traveller site serving a single family in Carlisle has been lodged.
Carlisle City Council has an application to change use of land for residential purpose at Deerview next to Ghyll Bank Caravan Park, Low Harker.
If approved, the proposal would see the site host one static caravan, one touring caravan, one dayroom, storage shed, hardstanding area, boundary wall and septic tank.
The application is retrospective for the hardstanding, boundary wall and septic tank.
Rockcliffe Parish Council has objected to the application.
It said: “This is a retrospective planning application for a development that has partly been built on land that is not designated for that purpose.
“There is already a provision for Travellers’ accommodation on the adjacent site and several sites around Carlisle and therefore we don’t see a proven need to effectively spill out onto a greenfield site in a very haphazard and irregular manner.”
The parish council said to approve the application, when part of it has been constructed already would create a dangerous precedent.
It added: “What is there to stop anyone building such a development in any field they like and then apply for retrospective planning permission? The proposal is very visible from the road with no attempt to provide screening.”
A previous application for seven pitches was refused in 2008.
Cumbria County Council, as lead highways authority, has raised no objection in principle but raised some concerns that there is no visibility from the 60mph road onto the site.
