PLANS for a set of retirement bungalows have been approved – with a bizarre rule that no children or cats are allowed to live there.
Medway Council last week approved plans for View Road, Cliffe Woods in Kent, with the requirement that residents are banned from keeping pet cats, and no one under 16 can live on-site.
The conditions were tied to a planning application for 25 homes for people aged over 55, based in a remote part of northern Kent near a protected wildlife site, KentOnline reports.
The exclusion clause for cats was due to the site being close to the Chattenden Woods and Lodge Hill site of special scientific interest (SSSI), where nightingale birds nest.
The condition of no-one under 16 being allowed to …