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Lenwood goes ahead - 1976

Lenwood goes ahead

EMBARGO REPORT SOUGHT

£400,000 LENWOOD PLAN GOES AHEAD

Yesterday work started on connecting a £4000,000 holiday bungalow development at Lenwood Country Club, Northam, with the mains drainage system. Mr Harry Capper, site agent for the developers, J and R Rooff Ltd, of West Ham, who are replacing 17 former Service huts with 59 fully furnished bungalows told the Gazette "Obviously we have got the necessary permissions otherwise we would not be able to do the work." At Torridge District Council's Planning Sub-committee this week, Cllr Lieut Cdr Michael Sumner siad that to allow Lenwood to connect to the main sewer would make the sewerage embargo look ridiculous, but the planning officer, Mr Tony Hodder, said that the developers had told the South West Water Authority that they intended to exercise their statutory rights under the Public Health Act to do so. Mr Hodder said it was no surprise to him or the Water Authority as the provisions of the Act were known. But the committee decided to ask for a full report on the whole question in view of the embargo and Cllr Sumner later told the Gazette that he had asked the chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee to look into the principles involved. Meanwhile news of progress in the long awaited Bideford and Northam sewerage schemem, programmed to start 1977-78, came at Wednesday's meeting of Torridge Council's Environmental Committee when it was announced that arrangements were being made for a joint design team set up by the Council and the South West Water Authority.

 

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