A BURTON Bradstock resident has questioned a supporting statement made over changes agreed for the Graston Copse caravan site.

An article in last week’s Bridport News - read it here  - about the relocation of 15 pitches quoted a planning agent’s report which said: “this application is linked with a separate planning application which proposes to relocate some of these ‘lost’ pitches on an extension to Larkfield Holiday Park in Burton Bradstock – also owned by the applicants.”

It was made to Dorset Council which decided the application to allow fewer, but larger, units on the Graston Copse site.

The village resident, who has asked not to be named, says there is no new planning application to move the units, that he can find, relating to the Larkfield site.

“Therefore any caravans relocated from the Graston Copse Holiday Park -  to "new pitches" on Larkfield Holiday Park would not have planning permission to do so,” he said.

“There is no such planning application on the Dorset Planning website for Larkfield Holiday Park to have an extension to that caravan site. Nor has any such planning application been received by Burton Bradstock Parish Council (as I write this email),” he said.

The Bridport News examination of the Dorset Council’s planning website site also failed to find any application to expand the Larkfield site although it is possible that a planning request has been made but has yet to be validated by the council and is, therefore, not visible in online searches, nor available for public comment.

The last application listed for the Larkfield site was in 2018 relating to new uses for old farm buildings, which was refused in 2019.

Parish councillors, and others, had asked for a traffic management plan to be in place prior to any changes being made at the Graston Farm site, fearing congestion along Annings Lane with the movement of large holiday units on and off the site.

A construction traffic management plan was part of the Dorset Council approval for the changes at the site. It states that a programme of works has to be submitted and approved which will include “the construction vehicle details (number, size, type and frequency of movement), vehicular routes, delivery hours and contractors’ arrangements (compound, storage, parking, turning, surfacing, drainage and wheel wash facilities).”