Buckinghamshire Council planning officers refused a planning application submitted by Phil Kerry, of T&S Nurseries, for a temporary rural worker’s house and agricultural building on land in Magpie Lane, in Coleshill, near Amersham.
The house would have allowed a worker to be on site as a 250-doe, free-range rabbit production unit, occupying around two acres of the site, was developed over the next three years.
Mr Kerry told BBC Three Counties radio last month that there was a “huge demand” for rabbit meat, after more than 87,000 people signed a petition calling for the plans to be thrown out.
But in a letter, Bucks Council planning officers wrote: “The applicant has not presented an adequate case to establish why the business must be located on this land, and why a more suitable, less-constrained site was not chosen.
“Alternatively, it has not been demonstrated that there is a demand for this proposal in this location.
“Notwithstanding the economic benefits of the scheme, these are not considered to outweigh the harm identified.”
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