Fishermen and boat users back new business home

FRESH plans for a new home for the owners of a well-established Ceredigion boat and machinery storage centre to allow them to keep an eye on equipment worth as much as £1m have been lodged after a previous scheme was refused.

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Last year, an application was brought before Ceredigion Council's development management committee by Mr and Mrs Hemming, of Cambrian Marine Centre, Tegfan, Aberaeron, who sought permission for a new dwelling in connection with the business, home to a number of pleasure craft, associated workshops and offices.

It was refused at that meeting on the recommendation that it “fails to satisfy the functional and other dwellings test as set out [within TAN6 policy]”.

Agent Paul Nicholls, of ArchiSpec Architectural Consultants Ltd, had said Cambrian Marine Centre covered “the entirety of the west coast”, dealing with “big names” in the marine world. The parents of the concern were planning to retire, and the applicants “consider it essential” to be on-site when they take over to protect stock valued as much as £1m.