YEAR-ROUND use of the holiday site at Osmington Mills has been rejected by a Dorset Council area planning committee. Owermoigne councillor Nick Ireland claimed it was nonsense to argue that the site was ‘sustainable’ when recent applications for homes in his village had been refused because they were considered not to be – although the village had local facilities available and a bus route. “I don’t understand why this is considered sustainable when some villages are not…it doesn’t make any sense to me,” he said. Other councillors were concerned about enforcing a condition of the planning consent which would mean people not being allowed to use the site as their main residence. Others said the increased use of the site would have an impact on the ecology of the area and up the site’s carbon footprint with additional heating and lighting as well as extra visitors travelling to and from the site.