A wood schoolhouse acceptable up by vocalist Charlotte Church connected a erstwhile pig workplace mightiness person to adjacent due to the fact that of biology fears.
The Awen Project opened successful 2024 without readying support successful Wenvoe, Vale of Glamorgan.
The singer, who appeared connected bid 1 of Celebrity Traitors, applied for retrospective permission successful October 2025, but that was refused.
The assembly raised concerns implicit the noise, interaction connected residents, and dangers to pedestrians due to the fact that of insufficient parking. It besides said the task failed to amusement however it would "conserve and heighten greenish infrastructure".
Church refused to comment, but has appealed to the Welsh government's Planning and Environment Decisions Wales (PEDW).
The Awen Project aims to springiness children an situation "where they consciousness championed to beryllium themselves and travel their passions arsenic progressive participants successful a antiauthoritarian community".
The schoolhouse is escaped and accepts donations.
It was primitively based successful Cwm George and Casehill Woods, adjacent Dinas Powys, with support from the Woodland Trust.
But, successful 2023, the foundation revoked the licence statement due to the fact that of "multiple breaches" of the support granted which "posed wellness and information concerns" for "visitors and wildlife".
In response, the task posted connected societal media that it had fixed its "best efforts to salvage" the partnership.
A assembly spokesperson said the exertion was refused due to the fact that of "concerns regarding the sustainability" of the site's determination and the "potential interaction connected neighbouring residents was different consideration".
There was besides "insufficient supporting grounds to fulfill concerns astir the imaginable interaction of the connection connected biodiversity and the earthy environment", the assembly said.
PEDW confirmed it had received the appeal, but said nary day has been fixed for the hearing.








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