A bid to change an industrial unit into a day nursery in Great Totham has been refused.
An application was submitted to Maldon District Council to replace an industrial building with the nursery and build a house on the old Dairy Crest site on Broad Street Green in December.
But the council has now rejected the plans.
The new nursery would have been a two-floor building with 12 parking spaces.
It would have employed six members of staff.
The council rejected the plans on the grounds it would be an “unwelcome”
visual intrusion on the countryside, the applicant failed to show an alternative employment use could not be found for the building and insufficient information had been submitted about the risk of contamination on the site. Great Totham Parish Council had also objected to the plans, saying they felt the day nursery would result in an “unsustainable and unacceptable” increase in traffic.
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