by Chris Malone
Retrospective permission is being sought for a surveillance caravan at a construction firm site in Peppard.
The mobile home has been in use at the Investfront facility in the Manor Farm trading estate since January, the Henley Standard reported.
Planning consultant Neil Davis claimed the caravan would help to “substantially” reduce crime in an area with no residential properties to offer additional surveillance of the premises.
“This automatically makes the complex prone to vandalism and theft when the units are unoccupied,” he wrote in his planning application.
With the backing of the police and the estate’s insurance brokers, the use of the mobile home is said to offer “maximum surveillance”, while not “adversely harming” the area of outstanding natural beauty.
Each of the 17 letters of support the document is accompanied by state that crime had been a problem before the caravan was installed, Mr Davis added.
