A DAIRY business in Drewesteignton is in the firing line of Dartmoor planners who want an unpermitted mobile home removed from the site.

They have agreed to seek legal action to secure the removal of a twin unit home at Harold and Mollie Dunn’s dairy at Beacon View Farm.

Members of the national park authority’s development management committee agreed to pursue the enforcement action at their meeting in Bovey Tracey last Friday.

They were told the couple’s daughter Catherine and her partner needed the accommodation because there was ‘not enough space and privacy for everyone’ at the farm.

An enforcement officer who visited the site advised Mr Dunn that the home required planning permission, although it was unlikely to be supported.

A report before the committee revealed that in November 2015 Mr Dunn was advised to remove the home from the land within 28 days.

A return visit was made in January 2016 when it was noticed that the home had not been shifted – and it was still there six months later when Mr Dunn revealed a planning application would be submitted.

At the end of September an outline application was duly received for the construction of an agricultural worker’s dwelling. But the bid was rejected at a planners’ meeting three months later.

An officer’s report before Friday’s committee revealed there were ‘not believed to be any overriding welfare considerations’ connected to the issue.

Members backed the recommendation to seek authorisation for legal action ‘to secure the removal of the mobile home from the land, and any associated paraphernalia, and to secure the cessation of the residential use of the land.’