From: Julie Shea
Sent: 14 February 2009 09:37
To: DC Secretaries
Subject: FW: PublicAccess for Planning - Application Comments
(08/02587/F)

 

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From: publicaccess@cherwell-dc.gov.uk [mailto:publicaccess@cherwell-dc.gov.uk]
Sent: 13 February 2009 15:50
To: Public Access DC Comments
Subject: PublicAccess for Planning - Application Comments (08/02587/F)

PublicAccess for Planning  - Application Comments (08/02587/F)

"Kay Pedder" has used the PublicAccess for Planning website to submit their comments on a Planning Application.  You have received this message because you are the Case Officer for this application or because this is a designated mailbox for PublicAccess comments submissions.

Comments were submitted at 13/02/2009 15:50:10 

Application Summary
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Application Number: 
08/02587/F

Address: 
3A And 3B
Cotefield Farm
Oxford Road
Bodicote
Banbury
Oxfordshire
OX15 4AQ


Proposal: 
Change of use for mixed use, storage, business and retail use to include sale of goods by auction

Case Officer: 
Graham Wyatt

Customer Details
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Name: 
Kay Pedder

Address: 
THE LODGE
WHITE POST ROAD
BODICOTE
BANBURY

Postcode: 
OX15 4BN




Comments
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Submission Type: 
Customer does not object to the Planning Application.

Comments: 
I agree with all of the following points raised by JS Auctions.

1. We are able to take a much wider variety of goods for sale as we have the space to display and store them, thereby reducing the need to send items to landfill, which helps to boost Cherwell's proud re-cycling reputation.

2. There is ample safe, off-road loading and unloading facilities.

3. Recycling, Many items of bulky nature and low value not taken by other Auction Houses (or ourselves at Bicester) will be able to be sold 

4. The site at Cotefield Farm is easily accessible by road, train or bus and some of our customers even travel by bicycle, therefore the Auction does not interfere with the already congested town centre.

5. Our carbon footprint will be greatly reduced as staff will not have to drive to and from Bicester every day, or goods transported from our Cotefield Farm site storage, which can sometimes be up to 10 vans loads per week. On average, travel, by staff and transport would be reduced by approx 25'000 miles per year.

6. We have no detrimental impact on the surrounding area and there will be no visual change on the site. The barns we use for storage were there before we took on the site and, in fact, we already occupy 75% of the area for our stores.

7. The site at Cotefield Farm has been a popular venue for the four plus years we were trading there and we have built up a large local following of both buyers and sellers whilst trading in Oxfordshire for over 13 years.

8. We have spent the past year intensively searching and quite simply there is nowhere else in this area that offers all of the necessities and advantages of Cotefield Farm as a venue for our Auctions. Certainly nothing that is within the town or edge of town criteria that Cherwell formally suggested.

The sales are extremely popular and bring people from surrounding areas without impacting on traffic and parking in the town centre.
I can see many advantages and no disadvantages to allowing this application.


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