Shooting lodge housing up to 20 guests proposed in rural village
A SHOOTING lodge and a private function venue has been proposed in the village of Cheddleton.
JCM Group Holdings
Ltd has lodged plans with Staffordshire Moorlands District Council to turn a dwelling at Ashcombe Park off Cheadle Road into a shooting lodge and private function venue.
The proposed shooting lodge would provide for 10 guns with a maximum capacity of 20 overnight guests.
If approved, the business would employ five beaters, five loaders along with two chefs, two waiting on staff, three cleaners, one manager and two overnight staff when guests are on site.
The development would be managed by the Pointon family with JCM Group Holdings (UK) Ltd providing maintenance.
A planning, design and access statement, submitted on behalf of the applicant’s by Sammons Architectural of Leek, reads: “The shooting lodge is proposed to service the pheasant and partridge shooting activity already established within one of the applicant’s other land holdings.
“The game birds are bought into the estate as day-old chicks and reared in pens on site and grown until full size before being released onto the estate.
“The proposed shooting lodge would provide for 10 guns with a maximum capacity of 20 overnight guests.
“Accommodation would comprise of three reception rooms, dining room, library, catering kitchen, conservatory, ensuite bedroom, guest kitchen, entrance hall w.c’s, boot room, store, laundry, maintenance building at ground floor with 10 guest bedrooms and two staff bedrooms provided on the mezzanine and first floor area.
“The development would be for exclusive use by people using the shooting lodge.
“The accommodation will be fully serviced with a catering staff brought in to provide fine dining meals and a full catering kitchen.
“Shooting parties will be taken in a gun bus to the existing shooting ground at Consall Wood, which is a continuation of the Ashcombe Park Estate and will then be ferried back to the hall. The change of use requires the highest standards of care.”
It is expected that a decision will be made by planners within the next 12 weeks.