Farm plans new access to take big machines off single track lane

A farm business near Telford wants to create a new access onto a busy road so that its big farm machinery doesn’t have to chug along a narrow lane and through a residential area.

By Local Democracy Reporter David Tooley, David Tooley
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Tern Farm, in Longdon Upon Tern, is a 524-acre arable holding farm that benefits from having reservoirs for irrigation on the southern part of the farm.

Planning agent Ian Pick, of Harrison Pick Ltd, has told planners at Telford & Wrekin Council that access to the farm is currently via the single-track Tern Lane.

“Tern Lane is a single track road which passes through a residential area and is not suited to take large modern agricultural machinery and heavy goods vehicle traffic which are required in connection with the operation of Tern Farm as a large arable farming business,” he said.

The picture is taken from a road and shows a hedgerow boundary to a farm field. Picture from planning documents. Picture: By Churton Ecology/Harrison Pick
The picture is taken from a road and shows a hedgerow boundary to a farm field. Picture from planning documents. Picture: By Churton Ecology/Harrison Pick