Cosy Cabins

03/03/2024

21/01/2023

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I think in these times it's important to help local businesses. Thank you all

04/04/2022

Council have emailed me this afternoon to request a final extension to give us our decision for the full planning, the extension has been agreed for 14th April 2022.

15/02/2022

Update:

The highways have raised issues with our new entrance to the glamping site as its on a 60mph road? So are all entrances on this stretch of road?

Also the parish Council have raised their heads and objected, as they are bored for following reasons

Entrance on 60mph road?
Water treatment no enough?
No catering facilities in the huts?

Solutions:

Close entrance and use our parking near our house
Install a water treatment system
Reduce site down to 2 Cabins with kitchen facilities

Down side:

We won't have a disability cabin, due to distance to parking area.

We are very upset at the treatment by the Parish Council as out of 3 planning applications in our area similar to ours, we are only one being rejected?

So below are pictures of some items & ideas, also the contact info for Ian Davidson who is head of Tendring District Council.
Anyone who would like to email him regarding the site, please feel free cause he does reply

Thanks for all your continued support

Andy, Alison & Harvey x

10/01/2022

If any of our followers are having a garden clear out of palms, cordilyines, large shrubs please let me know. I am willing to dig them up and make good, they will all go into out glamping project 😀

09/01/2022

Freebie Sunday... Thank you to the person who donated all the pictured palms, shrubs to our project, they are all planted and look lovely

08/01/2022

This will be the new design of seating area in the gardens, our one will be bigger with a raised fire pit in the centre for those chilly evening drinks

05/01/2022

Happy New Year to everyone, hope all went well and here's to a much better 2022

19/12/2021

Merry Christmas to all our pages followers, stay safe & here's to a better 2022. Andy, Alison & Harvey x

30/11/2021

Just want to write this to set right quite a few misunderstandings, where people have commented on our planning but haven't understood the planning application.
So I hope this will correct some of the incorrect comments received, as well as let people know our intentions:

Water harvesting:
Each pod will have installed a sedum roof ( living roof ), which uses the rain water to feed itself. Unused water gets purified by the sedum and goes to a water butt.

Hot tubs: These will be run burning UNTREATED wood normally send to landfill by our company. If we use logs then these will mean more trees being destroyed for our pleasure, that's not us.
The Hot tubs are CHEMICAL FREE so the water is then used to water the plants, which in summer will need it as its a very dry area.

Drainage: The site has a soak away which is Fed by our property & 1 other property, but its on our land.
No extra water from the pods will enter this soak away unnecessarily, also we are looking at harvesting more water to the toilets.

Septic tank: There suggestions on the website that we will be using our own property septic tank near our house? Well these are from people who don't know water doesn't run up hill 200m away with a rise of approx 8ft?
Of course there will be a new septic tank which if people visited, would see its been onside for months.

Wetland: This has been commented on by the farmer who sold us the land, but is untrue as documented letters & photos prove? The farmer even ploughed it ready for the sale to complete?

Disabled access: There has been comments regarding wheel chairs can't use mulch areas, YES we totally agree. But the mulch paths were laid 1 year prior to our discussion on a disabled unit. The disabled unit will have its own parking bay, with 2 ramps. 1st ramp to the pod & 2nd lower ramp to the pods private patio area. We have shown all our plans to not just disabled people to help plan the pod, but also disability organisations.

Cooking on site: There will be one central bbq/cooking area for all 3 pods NOT 1 each.

Washing up facility: No need as we will collect all dirty items as part of the experience, after all I wouldn't want to be washing up while I am away for a rest.
This will also encourage visitors to want to eat on site and not get into cars and keep leaving the site.

Parking: There will only be 3 parking spaces, 1 per pod. Disability pod will have its own closest to the entrance, the 2nd two pods will have one marked bay each.

Planting: Comments on planning are suggesting we have removed a section of hedging to form the entrance? This is untrue we actually removed 2 trees that were rotten & a 3rd tree which had fallen across our border with our neighbours. Bt insisted we remove the two rotten trees to avoid a £3000 fine as they was leaning of their cable. This was addressed ASAP by a contractor, not just to save the fine from bt but also to prevent them falling in the road. We have countered these trees by planting 120 Christmas trees in a forest track, 9 x 15ft silver birch trees, 8 palm trees and with more to come.

Parking area construction: The car park was constructed after we was informed that the trees were rotten due to poor drainage in that corner of the site.
* some comments suggest we removed 40 tons of quality rich soil, well if it was we would still have it? The removal was of 40 tons of clay not SOIL?
Expert advise said the only way to stop further drainage issues, was crushed concrete as water passes through it and also a deeper water soak away?
These have both been completed.

Thank you for the continued support shown by many, the council will make its own decision based on government guidelines.

Merry Christmas from Andy, Alison & Harvey

29/11/2021

So an update on the last post: I have today obtained an image from Google earth, which clearly shows our land and the adjoining land were never wetland. The land has only every been agricultural land for crops. This information has now been pasted to the council

28/11/2021

So today the farmer who sold us the land we propose to erect our shepherd's huts has commented on our planning.
They now claim they sold us the land as wetland? Witnessed Great crested newts breeding on the land? So my question is from the picture we took on the date we took ownership of the land, does this look like wetland? Also if it was then why has the farmer ploughed this field every year, including the day before we took ownership if it was an important endangered species habitat??
I think it's a delay tactic to hold up our planning yet again.

15/11/2021

Nature pond area coming alone nicely in last 24 hrs, sleeper wall to rear and picket fence at the front to come

11/11/2021

Our planning application is now live on the Tendring District Council website under planning, if anyone wishes to show their support and comment, reference number is 21/01719/ful

29/10/2021

Silver birch trees going in, these will add height to the site

28/10/2021

Just as expected we got the first negative comment on our page, " Paul middleton" and surprisingly his fb account was only made the same hour he made the comment lol. It's a sad life when someone who objects has to hide behind a false account. But happy Thursday everyone 😃

28/10/2021

All three of our shepherd's huts will be en-suite, this is the en-suite layout in the disability hut

27/10/2021

As many of our friends will already know, myself & Alison have been starting up our glamping business. We are pretty confident that by spring 2023 the site will be operational and ready to welcome visitors.
Please help us by sharing this fb page far & wide to help us realise our dream 😃