Vineyard near Ashford gets licence for wine-tasting events

Objectors and bosses give their views as vineyard in Hothfield, near Ashford, gets licence for wine-tasting events

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00:00 The area of the church that is as closest to the primary licensable area is where most recent burials are,

00:08 so where you have the most numbers of people visiting their graves,

00:11 and also people who are being buried there perhaps,

00:14 so there could be a potential conflict between a happy event on one side of the fence

00:19 and a very sad event on the other side of the fence.

00:22 There's worries about traffic trouble in the area, what would you say to that?

00:26 I think in our application and in the representations we've made,

00:30 we've highlighted all the measures that we are committed to take and prepared to take

00:34 to ensure that any additional traffic doesn't negatively impact the local community.