​Herefordshire Council has received an application for a Certificate of Lawfulness (CLOPD) for a caravan-compliant container at Redwood Orchard, in St Michael’s in Tenbury Wells. This land has been subject to years of planning complications, beginning when resident Brigid Eakins was served with an enforcement notice on her log cabin home, which she said the council initially told her planning permission was not required for. Ms Eakins previously claimed that she was given a decision notice in 2014 that she could replace her previous mobile home with the log cabin. The mum-of-three and former languages teacher was reportedly forced to fork out over £100,000 during the process. The following year, she was awarded over £8,000 in costs, after a planning inspector found that the refusal of the certificate was not well-founded. In May, we reported that Ms Eakins had her latest appeal dismissed by Herefordshire Council for a certificate of lawfulness for a caravan or shipping container structure on the land. In a new submission to Herefordshire Council, Town and Country Planning Partnership Ltd, which recorded itself as a lessee of the land, applied for the structure of a caravan-compliant shipping container to be lawfully recognised. The firm said it considers the stationing of the caravan/shipping container could be lawfully sited within the land, for use ancillary to agriculture under a certificate which was granted on a previous appeal.