Let the music play on! Council planners hold back on determining controversial holiday village fun project

 

The entertainment village provides  "thrills and action-packed adventure" says Haven in its brochure - but it doesn't mention the noise

ANOTHER summer of intrusive noise beckons for Humberston Fitties residents.

At this week’s planning meeting, North East Lincolnshire councillors deferred a retrospective application by Haven Leisure to retain its entertainment complex at Cleethorpes Beach holiday village - formerly known as Thorpe Park.

This is to permit committee members a site visit - which will be a pre-arranged - to allow them establish the extent to which noise, especially booming pop music from the stage, harms the peace and quiet both of nearby residents and of the Fitties chalet park which sits next door.

The site visit and follow-up planning meeting are probably several months away, so, this summer, it will be carry on regardless for the holiday company.

Even if their retrospective application is ultimately refused, there will be the option of appeal, but this might not be heard until late-2025, allowing for a further season of disruption.

It is not known if Tingdene, the owners of the Fitties chalet park, made any representations about the Haven application.

                              

Great fun for children. Haven are to be commended for bringing investment and jobs to the area - but does that entitle them to disregard the amenities of those living nearby? 

The Grimsby News says:  It looks like the planning committee has bottled the decision. During any forthcoming site visit, the volume from outdoor music will most likely be set low, probably with crooning love songs from a balladeer rather than loud hard rock from the likes of Black Sabbath. And why do the committee members need to be escorted on a formal site visit? Why have they not already done their research individually? The decision should have been made at this week's meeting. Those Fitties residents who objected to the application will rightly feel that the councillors have copped out and that they have been sorely let down.