PUBLIC notices cover a range of applications, ranging from licensing applications for liqueur or entertainment to planning applications, roadworks and other works.

Their intention is to inform communities of the latest plans in their area and such applications are considered for approval or refusal by local authorities.

Here is one of the latest applications submitted to Exmoor National Park:

Full Planning Permission is being sought by the National Trust for Cloud Farm Campsite at Oare, on Exmoor, for the replacement of existing reception and campsite facility buildings and storage container with new, two storey reception and campsite facilities building, and associated external works.

A pre-planning inquiry was made for the site in the valley at Badgworthy Water in June, 2024, which was supportive of the development in principle.

The National Trust purchased the Cloud Farm holiday accommodation business in June 2020, with the lower lying fields to the south and east of the site used for seasonal camping. The site sites within the Exmoor National Park.

The design and access statement explains that the ‘single-storey campsite reception /shop/cafe building was inherited in poor state of repair and has reached the end of its useful life’ and also contains asbestos materials making replacement necessary, while the accompanying toilet and shower block no longer providing adequate facilities or accessible facilities for guests.

The trust is proposing to replace the series of single buildings with a single, bespoke building of a character more suited to the location.

The statement continues that ‘the project offers the opportunity to deliver a high quality, low energy and sustainable building’.

Slate and stone from the existing buildings are to be used while additional materials are to be sourced locally where possible with Passivhaus principles used to deliver a low energy building.

An air source heat pump is to be used for heating and hot water provision, while fresh air will be provided by mechanical ventilation with heat recovery during the heating season.

Solar panels will be used to generate electricity with battery storage to enable the harvesting of energy during the night time.

The new building has been designed to be subservient to the farmhouse in terms of mass, scale, and ridge height, with a carefully selected palette of materials of muted, natural tones and textures chosen to ‘reinforce the approach and to minimise visual impact within the remote setting’.

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The public consultation for EXM/26/118/FULL ends on June 26.