Dawn Homes to appeal against smelly Ayrshire farm ruling as house plans are refused

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A housing developer says that it will appeal a decision to refuse its plan for 39 houses in Crosshouse.East Ayrshire Council's planning committee approved officials' recommendations based on assessments around the potential noise and smell from a neighbouring farm which were deemed unrepresentative of the issue.The application, for 30 private and nine affordable properties built near Holm Farm, resulted in 50 objections, including Crosshouse Community Council, Crosshouse Neighbours Placemaking group and the council's Environmental Health services.At Friday's meeting, councillors heard from six objectors including the owner of Holm Farm, residents of adjoining homes, the community council and placemaking group.They claimed that Dawn Homes were trying to fit too many houses onto the site, often within a few metres of existing properties, questioned road safety, accused Dawn Homes of 'ghettoing' affordable housing into one area of the development, contrary to guidelines.They raised concerns about the proximity to up to one million litres of potentially dangerous slurry and providing a noise and odour survey that was unrepresentative of the issues.Two of the objectors claimed that the developer was putting 'profit over people'.Environmental Health stated they witnessed noise from a generator and animals during one of their visits.They said: "During this visit, we established that the farm remains operational."And they added that the assessments for noise and odour were made before cattle and horses being moved from pasture back into the farm in November and were not a true representation of conditions.However, Dawn Homes representatives pushed back against some of the complaints and even the planning department itself.Jim