Self-service coffee shed splits village but gets the go-ahead

CONCERNS OVER CRIME, NOISE AND ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

- By IVAN MORRIS POXTON Local Democracy Reporter [e-mail]

PLANS for a self-service coffee shed split a village, but have been granted permission.

North East Lincolnshire Council's planning committee unanimously approved the facility in the small hamlet of Wold Newton, five miles southwest of Waltham.

The application had split opinion. There were more comments in support than opposed, however a number of these were from outside of North East Lincolnshire.

The site is in a farmyard in the part of the local authority within Lincolnshire Wolds National Landscape.

Applicant Claire Ollard told councillors the proposal came about after talking to local rambler and running groups.

"I don't think people will necessarily know it's there unless they use the area. It's not a big commercial opportunity as such, it's small farm diversification."

It will not "look like a Costa Coffee, it will look like a small farming community project, which is what it is."