Home Farm, Aldenham Road, Elstree, Hertfordshire WD6 3AZ

Application No. 20/1312/FUL

Erection of a yoga tent for a temporary period of two years at Home Farm, Aldenham Road, Elstree, Hertfordshire WD6 3AZ.

CPRE Hertfordshire object to this proposal for development in the Green Belt contrary to the National Planning Policy Framework and policies in the Hertsmere Development Plan.

The applicant claims that the site has an existing approval (15/0145/FUL) as a glamping site, with permission for 12 yurts and tents, and that this proposal is essentially an extension of that use.

Throughout the Planning Statement accompanying this application the applicant refers to the entire farm as ‘the site’. However, the approved plans for the glamping site are ambiguous. The red-lined application site, the approved ‘site map’ and the plans in the Planning Statement for 15/0145/FUL only cover a field to the north-east of the farm complex, but the ‘Planting Plan’ and aerial photographs show tents outside this area. The Council will have to form a view on what ‘site’ was actually approved in 2015.

Notwithstanding, the approval does not cover the whole of Home Farm as a glamping site. In our view this application cannot be considered as part of, or an extension of the glamping use. It is located within the farmyard complex on land between the car park and Burness Cottages, separated from the glamping field by substantial agricultural buildings.