Plans for a bookable field for working out dogs off their leads near a Derbyshire town have actually been sent. The job, from a Mr G Spencer, would see a three-and-a-half acre field in The Green, simply south of Kirk Langley, developed into a dog working out center.
Plans for the website, 300 metres north of the junction with Petty Close Lane, would likewise consist of 4 parking areas and a wildflower meadow environment, the application to Amber Valley Borough Council information. A choice on the strategies will be made by the council in the next couple of months.
The application says the website would be available for one reservation at a time for an optimum of an hour for each session, just throughout daytime hours and with an optimum of 4 dogs per session. Mr Spencer says in his application that the job intends to diversify his farm.
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He composes: “This is part of a diversification scheme for a small farm, which, with the planned withdrawal of agricultural subsidies over the next five years, is having to plan for other ways to maintain a viable income. Initial interest in the potential facility from local dog walkers shows that there is a demand which, after allowing for the costs of creating the facility, outweighs the annual income obtainable from its current grassland use either for grazing or for the production of silage as animal fodder.”
The application says Mr Spencer wishes to offer “public access to the countryside for dog walkers who wish to exercise their animals without conflict with normal agricultural activities”. It likewise says: “The taking of this land out of agricultural use provides an opportunity for the enhancement of the natural environment by the creation of habitat for a wide range of species by the creation of a belt of a wildflower meadow around the perimeter of the site.”
The application continues: “The benefits to the health of a section of the community and to the reduction of pressure on agricultural land by unauthorised public access for dog walking should also be taken into account.” This application comes simply over a year after Derby paralegal Sheralyn Pattison applied to the borough council for a dog day care on land simply north of Kirk Langley – around a mile approximately north of the dog working out website.
Ms Pattison hoped her dog day care website, off Flagshaw Lane, would help offer victims of contemporary slavery with a profession which would support their stress and anxieties and alleviate tension, together with assisting as much as 32 distressed dogs too.
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