Futuristic glamping domes approved for farm

Plans for four futuristic “glamping domes” on a Herefordshire hillside have been approved.

The development is planned for The Bringewood, part of New House Farm in Burrington near Ludlow.

The units will lie within gaps in sloping woodland, according to the planning application.

They will extend an established self-catering business at the farm and will increase employment at the farm from three full-time posts to five, it said.

The “high-quality, low-impact, luxury” modular domes will be 4m (13ft) high at their tallest, and 7m (23ft) across.

They will sit on elevated decking and will be screened by new planting, according to the planning application.

Each can sleep two adults and three children, or four adults.

A proposed new shared foul water treatment system allayed concerns over the domes’ impact on nearby protected rivers.

Council planners considered that, being “modest in size and obscured by existing trees” and without immediate neighbours, the development would “not have an unacceptable impact upon the landscape”.

It would create “a modest economic benefit” locally without bringing so much extra traffic as to impact on road safety, they concluded.

Among conditions with the permission are a ban on outside lighting, on amplified music or voices inside the domes or out, and on anyone staying in them longer than four weeks.

This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.

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