Council to decide on controversial vineyard tours

Image caption, Bay Vineyard wants to run tours and sell wine at Greenhills Farm near Robin Hood's Bay
  • Author, Anttoni James Numminen
  • Role, Local Democracy Reporting Service

A plan by a vineyard to run tours and sell wine will be decided by councillors following a raft of objections.

The Bay Vineyard, at Robin Hood鈥檚 Bay, applied for a licence to organise tours with wine tastings and to sell wine to visitors.

However, the plan was met with dozens of objections about noise disturbance and the impact on local roads.

North Yorkshire Council鈥檚 licensing sub-committee is due to decide on the application at a meeting on Thursday.

Bay Vineyard, which grows red and white English grape varieties, was set up at Greenhills Farm as a diversification project, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

Rebecca and Ian Sheveling鈥檚 application has sought permission for vineyard tours and the sale of alcohol seven days a week from 09:00 to 23:00 as well as permitting the playing of live and recorded music.

However, dozens of residents and visitors have raised concerns it would have a 鈥渄etrimental impact on the area鈥.

One of the objectors, Richard Foreman, asked: 鈥淲ill I, and other local residents, have the enjoyment of our property significantly reduced because if we sit outside we will be subjected to the public nuisance of the additional noise? This is unacceptable.鈥

No objections have been made by the North York Moors National Park Authority and several letters of support were also sent to the council.

Resident Lindsey Broughton said she was in favour of the plan because 鈥渋t would be wonderful to buy a bottle of wine directly from the very place that the grapes were grown鈥.

The licensing sub-committee is due to be held at Scarborough Town Hall.

Listen to highlights from North Yorkshire on 大象传媒 Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North or tell us a story you think we should be covering here.