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CLA Saves Shooting Business Rural economy experts, the CLA, have helped save one couple's new shooting business from collapse.
Robert Elliott and Helen Morris dreamt of moving to the Welsh countryside and running the Holland Arms Shooting Ground near Colwyn Bay. But within months of opening, the local environmental health office placed a noise abatement order on the business following complaints about the level of noise. Robert Elliot said negotiations with their neighbours and Conway Borough Council came to no avail. The eventual restrictions placed on their business were devastating and decimated their income: "It was impossible for us to continue to run our business because we couldn't generate enough income to cover our fixed overheads. We were only allowed to shoot sub sonic cartridges three days a week, two hours a day. The support and guidance of the CLA helped us successfully win the case to keep our business going. The shooting ground is now fully operational again," said Robert Elliot. The CLA's shooting experts in its legal team, along with Gamblins - a specialist firm of lawyers who are also CLA members – challenged the local authority and had the order lifted. CLA Solicitor, Christopher Price, said: "This seems to have been another case of a local authority pandering to the demands of a particular group rather than carrying out a proper investigation of the facts. "People who live near clay shoots are, of course, entitled to complain to the local authority if they think the shoot is causing a problem. But the response of the local authority should be to fully investigate the case by taking into account all the relevant issues before deciding whether the complaints are justified. This did not happen with the Holland Arms ground," concluded Mr Price. |
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Christopher Price is the Director Policy and Advice at the CLA. He has overall responsibility for managing all the CLA's national policy and advisory work. He makes sure that the organisation's policy work is focused on what matters most, and that members' queries are dealt with accurately and efficiently. A planning and environmental lawyer by background, he joined the CLA as public law adviser in 2002. He became Chief Legal Advisor in 2007 and took up his current post a year later. Before coming to the CLA Christopher worked in local government for a number of different authorities.
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