A PIG farmer’s plan to convert cattle sheds into warehouses has been turned down again.

Wychavon District Council rejected a plan to carry out the work at Daniels Farm in Claines on the edge of Worcester earlier this year because planning officers said the narrow roads, blind bends and difficult “inadequate” junctions around the farm would not be able to cope with the extra traffic.

Peter Philips, who owns the pig farm off Vicarage Lane, then lodged an appeal with the government’s planning inspectorate – which has the power to overrule the council and approve the application – in a bid to get the decision overturned.

The planning inspector said, despite offers from businesses looking to store everything from “building materials” to “wool and classic cars,” he had no grounds to overrule the council.

The inspector also said information on traffic and the number of journeys and accidents included in the application was “limited” and the request to use the warehouses for ‘storage and distribution’ was too vague.

In the ruling, the inspector also said planners were right to turn the plan down over the lack of information on extra traffic using nearby narrow roads, and with the necessary numbers again missing during the appeal, the inspector backed the council.

Officers, who had turned down the plan in April, said that despite the farm saying it had held discussions with a local bricklayer about a possible move into the converted cattle sheds, the occupier of the new warehouses would still be “purely speculative” and the number of extra vehicles on the road could not be calculated properly.

North Claines Parish Council objected to the plan saying it was unsafe for lorries to use the narrow Egg Lane and Vicarage Lane and drive past Claines CE Primary School.

Highways officers at Worcestershire County Council also objected saying the surrounding roads were unsuitable.

The primary school’s governors also spoke out against the plan saying it would be ‘dangerous’ and ‘hazardous’.

The smell at Daniels Farm has been the subject of several complaints and the piggery is under investigation by Wychavon District Council over allegedly violating an important condition designed to protect neighbours from the foul stench.