FIRM IN BRIGG AREA GETS GO-AHEAD TO EXPAND

A well-known firm in the Brigg area has been given the go-ahead to expand.
Bennett Potatoes has successfully applied for planning permission to expand its grading facilities and construct a further grading building at its depot at the former Scawby & Hibaldstow railway station yard.
The site has been in use for potato storage and grading for more than 30 years.
The firm supplies many of the large supermarket groups with potatoes and says it is important these are delivered to the customers in perfect condition.
It needs additional and improved grading facilities "for adequate quantities to be size-graded within the working day."
The proposed site is within Hibaldstow parish and the application was granted by North Lincolnshire Council.
A council report said: "The business is long established and has secured additional contracts for the grading/sorting of potatoes, and therefore requires additional indoor space.
"It is considered that the proposal is of a scale that is does not have a significant adverse impact on the character or appearance of the open countryside.
"The site is an established business that requires a countryside location, near to the product that it caters for.
"There are no nearby dwellings that are adversely affected, due to noise or disturbance, and no adverse comments have been received from neighbours or the parish council."
The company's application suggested "proposed employees" would become 63 - an increase of three jobs.