An application has been submitted to change the commercial/industrial nature of the planning permission granted to part of the former Pingley Camp prisoner-of-war camp on Bigby High Road, Brigg. The new proposal seeks to establish live-work units - places where people live and work, saving on carbon footprint by reducing the need to drive to and from businesses elsewhere.
This application is being considered by West Lindsey District Council, as the site is just over the Brigg/North Lincolnshire border. The housing part of the site seems unaffected by the new submission.
Pingley Camp was built during WW2 for German and Italian prisoners-of-war. Later, it housed many European workers who came to work on the land - some during summer holidays.
The old POW huts became increasingly rundown, until they were eventually knocked down to make way for redevelopment of the entire site.
Our picture shows Pingley Camp in its twilight weeks.
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This idea is becoming increasingly popular.
Went to one place recently - near the Yorks/Lancs border - close to Pendle Hill (translated means Hill-hill-hill.
The guy I went to see had a modern house and a nearby industial unit - he had a contract with an offshore windfarm company for checking their underwater foundations in the Irish and North Seas. He used the industrial unit for checking his underwater equipment and etc.
His next door neighbour ran hot air balloon flights, while another
made bespoke go-carts.
Two of the people previously used improvised premises on farms, but found such not particularly ideal.
So history is being recycled: this type of live-on-site work was previously called a cottage industry.
Usual planning jargon on the council's website - reference to B1 use - with no explanation for the layman. But West Lindsey Council is not the only one that doesn't think to explain itself in plain English. I remember being ticked off by an editor 30 years ago for using the word penultimate. He said we should never use terms our readers might not understand. He was that paper's penultimate editor - sorry!
Anyway, Ken, to you and I a B1 is as a 4-6-0 mixed traffic loco, designed by Edward Thompson in the 1940s for the LNER (sorry, London, North Eastern Railway) and a favourite with Brigg trainspotters in the day of BR (sorry, British Railways).
B1 is also:
A. A vitamin - for nerves
B. A USAF Bomber - called the Lancer
C. and the Queen Bee!!!
(not really)
For info:
Harry Thorpe, ex-farmer and previous owner of Pingley Farm & Camp applied to West Lindsey to erect dwelling and B1, B2 and B8 units on the camp-site.
This was refused about 10 years ago for a variety of reasons.
Google: 'Pingley Camp, B1 , Thorpe' and the WL planning info should appear - dated 1999/2000.
B1 - offices/light industrial
B2 - ge3neral industrial
B8 - storage
Harry is married to Sally - nice couple - sold up and live somewhere out in the Wolds, I think.
Isn't the whole of Brigg a live-work area? I mean, if you live in Brigg, any workplace in Brigg is within a reasonable walking distance. It's only the pushing outwards of Brigg's boundaries by new developments which make this less so. Thus I can't take seriously the idea that a site almost 2km from the town center will reduce car use.
However, I agree that light industry and housing shouldn't be significantly separated, and that combined work/live buildings should be generally welcome.
Nige,
re post Oct 1
Wot does 'jargon' and 'layman' mean?
It is like Polygon - the parrot's flown off - ie the jar's empty. And wot happens if the Layman is female?
Please explain the term, 'mixed-traffic loco'. Is it some sort of road rage?
You won't get me with 'penultimate', tho', Nige. I already know it means my 2nd best friend.
The motto of the Coldstream Guards is 'Second to None' - does that mean they nearly came last, or, in bogie terms, that they have a steam engine on a wheelbarrow - 2-0 ?
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