A councillor has defended her retrospective planning application and responded to neighbour’s objections after she built her stables bigger than approved.
An application by Cllr Clare Mosdell to gain permission for her stables is heading to the planning committee next week because the next door neighbours objected.
Permission was granted for the stables in Newchurch last year but now, as they stand, they are almost double the size approved — at 52m2 compared to the granted 28m2 floorspace.
Cllr Mosdell said after talks with the builder once planning permission was granted, it was apparent what they had gained permission for could not be built due to land levels, run-off water and flooding.
Originally the plans were to build another stable to separate the horses due to fighting, but the land levels meant it would have been too high for the horses to step in unaided.
Instead, she said, they decided to go ahead with the plans to build more, including another stable and storage room, due to the hot weather the Island was facing and the effect it was having on the horses.
A gazebo had been put up to counteract the heat but it kept blowing away so she went forward with the builder’s plans.
Cllr Mosdell said while the builders were putting up the stables, the architects were called and retrospective plans submitted.
Along with the retention of the stables, permission is being sought to build an all-weather ménage to act as a sand school, to be enjoyed by Cllr Mosdell’s grandchildren.
Isle of Wight Council planning officers have said the application should be given approval with seven conditions.
They say it would be in keeping with the established character and nature of the site and surrounding area and as such would not cause any harm or detrimental visual impacts to landscape character.
The landowners next to Cllr Mosdell, sited below due to a hill, have objected to the plans due to their fears it would flood their land.
Mr O’Donnell, the landowner, said in his objection the built-up area would create more water run-off and:
“When it rains, my fields that border her land flood and the water then flows across my hardstanding (eroding it) to my yard drainage … In the current, and all prior planning for the land, the applicants have stated that drainage would be dealt with by soakaways. There are none on her land.”
However, Cllr Mosdell said £9,000 worth of drainage was installed including 2 soakaways when the stables were built, in line with professional advice and percolation tests, but the neighbours were not happy because it was not the level of drainage they wanted installing.
With the development of the sand school, Cllr Mosdell said there would be proper drainage put in, including a bund and raised areas to level the land and stop the water running.
In the officer’s report, they acknowledged while there were areas of localised flooding it was due to the topography of the land and the fact it sits at a lower level, with the proposed development unlikely to increase surface water on the site or run-off to the neighbouring land.
The planning committee will determine the application on Tuesday 6th July.
Ms Mosdell
What utter nonsense!
You have other buildings on your land that do not have planning permission:
A large extension to the original stable block that contains a toilet that that drains to a septic tank that has no permit from the Environment Agency;
A large hay barn that runs the length of the original stable block.
Perhaps you should get planning for these retrospectively as well.
You state you put £9k worth of drainage when you built the new block.
When in fact it was only put in February 21 after pressure from me.
Total and utter nonsense, total and utter greed!
Ms Claire Mossdale
You should lead by example….if this is it you open the flood gates.
You should resign
Your neighbour should be compansated for loss and stress.
More importantly the building should be dismantled and built to original plan.
You Ms Mossdale have ignored all that makes England fair….shame on you
Councillor Mosdell seems to be a complete innocent in all this. So many things were too difficult for her to predict with this little project, including the need to set an example to us all where planning rules are concerned. As a councillor perhaps she should have just popped down the corridor to ask planning’s advice instead of just doing as she wanted. Be interesting to see if the committee nod this through or make a clear demonstration to all of us that no-one is above the rules on the Isle of Wight, not even a councillor.
Ms Mosdell
You say you had to make it nearly twice the size due to the land levels
Nonsense!
It is built on a concrete base, you could have made that base half the size and built as per your planning.
But no. Greed gets the better of you yet again!
You say your ménage will not cause run-off issues for my land, as you are going to bund it.
Then how is the water to drain?
You would end up with the biggest swimming pool on the Island if you bund the school!
Do you think us all fools, Ms Mosdell?
She will get permission for her stables for who she is anyone else no way
I am sorry, but Councillor Mosdell purposely decided to build something at total variance to plans submitted, and instead of submitting amended plans and awaiting approval decided to do ‘what she wanted’ and ‘to hell with proper due process’.
This application should be rejected out-of-hand!
How can you defend breaking planning regulations, if this gets passed then you might as well have NO planning regulations.
You’ve only got to worry about your horses fighting Clare. In Sandown and anywhere else HMO properties are popping up, it’s the druggies and alcoholics that are fighting, therefore making the lives of the surrounding residents and the community in general a bloody nightmare!
These pesky homeless people!! How annoying for you!!!
You would think that our council would find them a few rocks to live under away from humans wouldn’t you!?
Hay sunshine,what have horses got to do with alcoholics..?…hic
Pull the lot down and start over – process which would be applied if it was one of us plebs. Simples. ‘I did it for the horses’ – yes love, the building in question is called stables.
What a load of rubbish. Planning is there for a reason. She over ruled what was given and now givins silly excuses to get what she wants. It should be knocked down and built to the plan’s granted. Anyone else doing this would be made to stop and do as per planning or even knock it down.
NOTE TO THE NEW LEADER
Letting this go will start your slippery slope to the end of you time as leade.
Note to the new leader, absolutely SPOT. ON. I fear I can predict the outcome however.
No excuse, Cllr or not she’s taking the piss.
Yer, you go girl….!!!!
She should be made to take it down like everyone else who FLOUTS THE RULES.
Who does she think she is.
We watch this with interest, oh yes !!!!
This arrogant and self centered woman just shows the utter contempt she and her kind have for the planning regulations, she should be forced to comply with the original planning permissions or the planning department and council will lose all credibility at a time when they need the public to support them, is it brown envelope season again mosdell.
Ding Ding, Round 2 of the corrupt council parade if this doesn’t get stopped.
Will be very interesting to see if this is granted , obviously this new planning rule, to submit in retrospect is a winner! ,(to the right people ) thought that sort of council had been voted out !