 Quad bikes make too much noise say neighbours |
A Cornwall farmer's attempt to diversify into quad biking has come a cropper after councillors voted to close the operation. The unauthorised quad bike centre near Looe has led to eight complaints about noise from neighbours.
Caradon councillors voted to take enforcement action against Chris Gillbard who started the business at Wringworthy Farm just before Easter.
He will have 14 days to comply after he gets the notice.
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Mr Gillbard said he was revising his planning application and re-submitting it in the hope of winning permission to continue with what he regards as farm diversification. Mr Gillbard said: "We have a maximum of eight bikes out at once.
"We are still looking after the countryside and maintaining the fields and we are not affecting anyone in the countryside.
"There's no noise hardly at all."
Kim Spencer who has holiday cottages next to the farm, said: "The quads go right behind my cottages and out across the land and disturb other people.
"Cornwall's greatest asset is its landscape and here it is being destroyed."
She claimed that if the centre was not shut down, she would take legal action because it would eventually ruin her business.
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